Word: kaffir
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Quarrels being the order of the day at the Mai-Mai, it took only a few Kaffir-beers before the Negroes chose up sides and began brawling. Within minutes, the fracas got out of hand, and several hundred enraged natives began hurling iron beer mugs, while Negro municipal police looked on helplessly. Spilling into the street, the mob continued the battle with knives, stones and tools. Suddenly, as several Negroes staggered about with screwdrivers and knives sticking grotesquely from their backs, the crowd made an unspoken truce. Ranging themselves on either side of the street, they turned their fury...
...wife is silent and bitter. But the pair beg the students to stay with them for a free holiday. Thus the boys come to sense the fear that lies under Fletcher's racial brag. The house is subtly menaced by a big old illiterate Kaffir, Joseph, who just hangs about. Man and wife are desperately afraid of this good and harmless man. It is all a boring mystery to the two boys until the wife's brother arrives, and in a night of violence, in which the prodigal wrecks all the furniture in the house, they piece together...
...discover what happened to his sister and her child. After failing in his search, he had returned to make a moral judgment of the whites who had wronged him. His sentence: he dooms the whites to his own company, and still using the language of the "good" (i.e., subservient) Kaffir, moves into the ruined house...
...look of shocked bewilderment on his face as he walked up to a group of his Colored friends waiting on the sidewalk for their turn before the board. But the coffee-colored youth did not get a chance to speak. "Get away from us, you filthy Kaffir [black]," spat one of his former chums, as the group walked hastily away. They knew that being seen with him might be evidence enough to reclassify them as African "natives...
...Flogging of a Kaffir" [TIME, June 7]: Had your correspondent used a fraction of the diligence he showed in tracking down and recording an anonymous "Boer farmer's" comments on the case, he could not have failed to mention in passing the countless numbers of South Africans-both "Boer farmers" and others-in whom the crime aroused the same shocked views as those held by the trial judge...