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  • noun Plural form of kaffir.

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Examples

  • And because theyve incorporated things that happened to them on that real road trip, some very unlikely events feel perfectly authentic in the movie, including a visit to an Afrikaner bar where a guy who is furious about what he calls kaffirs sitting at his table ends up their buddy after a few beers.

    'White Wedding' Celebrates Love, South African-Style 2010

  • And because theyve incorporated things that happened to them on that real road trip, some very unlikely events feel perfectly authentic in the movie, including a visit to an Afrikaner bar where a guy who is furious about what he calls kaffirs sitting at his table ends up their buddy after a few beers.

    'White Wedding' Celebrates Love, South African-Style 2010

  • Markgraaff - who was secretly taped in 1997 referring to black rugby administrators as "kaffirs" - had made himself available for the position of SA Rugby's deputy president.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • I was confronted by a preacher who was informing the "faithfull" that Jews were all monkeys and Christians, also referred to as kaffirs, were pigs.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • "It is common cause that in G4S, black workers are still referred to as kaffirs and monkeys," said Howard.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The Afrikaners hurled racial slurs - calling the blacks "baboons" and "kaffirs" - both derogatory names used to refer to black people.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2010

  • He was fighting, he said, for "what Muslims call kaffirs, all those non-Muslims, all those women, those apostates, those renegades, those homosexuals, [who] will pay a high price if Islam became more dominant in our society".

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • Just like Imran said: first of all these so called religeous parties should be banned because not one of them have condemned the attacks when asked they give wishy washy remarks and the funny thing is that Qazi Hussain and Maulana Fazlur rehmans sons's have studied in the lands of whome they call kaffirs how ironic is that!

    unknown title 2009

  • Just like Imran said: first of all these so called religeous parties should be banned because not one of them have condemned the attacks when asked they give wishy washy remarks and the funny thing is that Qazi Hussain and Maulana Fazlur rehmans sons's have studied in the lands of whome they call kaffirs how ironic is that!

    unknown title 2009

  • This type of population control is more than a little reminiscent of the routine South African police harassment of "kaffirs," who were required to carry a passbook at all times and were subjected to frequent humiliating searches and interrogations.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

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