Word: kaffir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white queen across the seas"-had any white woman won comparable confidence among South Africa's natives. Their world is still a man's world, where a bride may be bought with cattle, where a wife labors as a beast of burden while her lord & master drinks Kaffir beer, hunts and squats on his haunches. Mrs. Ballinger had overcome the prejudice. More than that, as their Parliamentary spokesman, she was in a position to weld South Africa's tribesmen, now divided, into a single whole. For the Union, such a move could have far-reaching consequences...