Word: kaffirs
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...wedded couple attended an African celebration in their honor. There was much leap-dancing and yelling around a campfire. During the evening Fuller-Sandys had a chance to open a letter delivered to him earlier in the day. Bearing neither return address nor signature, it said, "You bloody white Kaffir, what a disgrace to the country you are . . . Your beloved black bastard isn't even good looking." He read the note, then handed it to his bride. After a moment, she replied quietly: 'Tt doesn't matter, dear...
...Christian charity is extended toward blacks by South Africa's Dutch Reformed churches. Most refuse to admit blacks to their services. A current joke has a white policeman entering a church on a Sunday morning, where he finds a lone black on his knees. "What are you doing, Kaffir?" asks the cop. "Scrubbing the floor," answers the African. "O.K.," says the cop. "But God help you if I catch you praying...
...theory that hard liquor would only bring out the savage in the black man, South Africa's white bosses for years have sternly forbidden intoxicants to the Africans. All the natives are allowed is thick, weak "kaffir beer" sold for seven cents per pint at government beer halls...
...than any other slogan in their extensive campaign, according to Stanley Uys, special correspondent for the Christian Science Montor. At one Johannesburg polling station, Republicans brandished Liberal Party posters showing a white hand clasping a black hand. They asked: "Do you want South Africa to be ruled by these Kaffir-lovers...
...Zachariah Mgabi (the character is named after the man who portrays him) spends several months of hard, unprofitable labor in the mines and then wangles a better job in Johannesburg: houseboy to a baas. But the mistress of the house soon loses patience with a "damn fool Kaffir" who can't tell mushroom soup from slops. She fires him, and Zachariah wanders thereafter, like a bug in a garbage pail, through the vast black slums of Johannesburg. He gets two jobs in succession and is fired from each for no particularly good reason. After a long layoff he allows...