Citations:kaffir

English citations of kaffir

Noun

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• 1792, The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan, Volume 14

  … the Hambonaas, a nation quite different from the Kaffers, having a yellowish complexion, …

• 1808, The Ladies' Repository, Vol. 18 p. 52

  A Kaffir Minister.—The Cape Town Telegraph says that the Rev. Tyo Soga, the educated Christian Kaffir, … His discourse was characterised by great depth of thought and eloquence of language.

• 1858, Alfred Wilks Drayson, Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa:

  The people here were of every colour and denomination,—English, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinamen, Malays, Negroes, Kaffirs, Hottentots, Fingoes, and Mohammedans, white and black, red and yellow, with every intermediate shade.

• 1904, Ernest Dunlop Swinton, The Defence of Duffer's Drift

  I also noticed that all the male Kaffirs from the neighboring kraal had been fetched and impressed to assist in getting the Boer guns and wagons across the drift and to load up our captured gear, and generally do odd and dirty jobs.

• 1905, Mahatma Gandhi, The Indian Opinion:

  About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly.

• 1940, William Graham Sumner, Folkways

  Formerly a Kaffir would work in the diamond mines for three marks a day until he got money enough to buy cattle and to buy a woman at home, …

• 1959, Alf Ross, On Law and Justice

  If you ask a Kaffir why he does so-and-so, he will answer—"How can I tell? It has always been done by our forefathers."

• 1971, Naboth Mokgatle, The Autobiography of an Unknown South African

  I once heard him say to the gardener, 'Come along, son.' His wife scolded him saying, 'He's not son, don't call him son, he's a kaffir.'

• 1976, The South African Law Reports: Decisions of the Supreme Courts of South Africa, Volume 4

  It is clear that the word has over the years taken on an additional meaning and that in the present development of South African society if you call a member of the Bantu race a kaffir this may well constitute an insult.

• 1980, Natie Ferreira, The story of an Afrikaner: die rewolusie van die kinders?

  A kaffir is a kaffir. Their place in the order of things is somewhere else. Are they human? They may or may not be.

• 1998, Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull

• "… and today here a white man is calling me a kaffir. This term that I absolutely resented." And that, says Nofomela, is his political motive.

• 2005, Nkuzi Development Association, Still searching for security: the reality of farm dweller evictions in South Africa

  "He called me a kaffir. This made me angry and I could not take it anymore …"