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  • What distinguishes nations is the difference in knowledge, wisdom and maturity, and whether they live well, in peace … You, my people, say you hate being called Kaffirs, as I do.

    ANC Today 2007

  • What distinguishes nations is the difference in knowledge, wisdom and maturity, and whether they live well, in peace … You, my people, say you hate being called Kaffirs, as I do.

    ANC Today 2007

  • I ran to the entrance of the cave, calling the Kaffirs, and together we carried him out into the sunlight.

    Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • In the present instance, however, it is absolutely incomprehensible why he should have cited the one author who calls the Kaffirs chaste, ignoring the crushing weight of countless facts showing them to be extremely dissolute.

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • Van der Stel, the thin Afrikaner who spoke of "Kaffirs" and expected blacks to call him "Baas" - but who also had genuine respect for the Zulu scouts, and always listened to their advice.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • In the ambit of racism tons of Big Lies are being told about the 'children of Ham', about the 'Kaffirs' and 'Coolies'.

    Columbus' 'discovery' of America: the greatest hoax of all times? 2009

  • And this is in the chapter dedicated to "Kaffirs" unbelievers.

    The Progressive Muslim Union and the great Niqab Debate Pamela K Taylor 2006

  • "sin against the Spirit" which had chosen him to bring light to those who sat in darkness -- that is, the Kaffirs, and especially to that section of them who were in bondage to the Boers.

    The Ghost Kings Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • A few moments before the photo was to be taken, Weinberg was told that the park that had been chosen could not be used because: 'You're not going to bring all those "Kaffirs" in this park.'

    12 STATE REPRESSION 1980

  • White men were not willing to boss other white men in the same way as they would 'Kaffirs'.

    file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa04.txt Ray Esther 1969

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