Tag: Kaffir
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OUTRAGE_MEETING HATRED IN SOUTH AFRICA: Black Daily News Reporter is Attacked as He Covers Rally
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Friday, April 29, 1994 RUSTENBURG—I was not afraid. I wanted to see them when they attacked me. “Kaffir, you have to leave; you are not wanted here,” one said. “Kaffir” is South Africa’s ugliest racial epithet, like its U.S. equivalent, “nigger.” “Wait a minute, you invited…
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OUTRAGE_Not All Press Welcomed, No Matter What the Sign Says
By GENE MUSTAIN, Daily News Staff Writer | Friday, April 29, 1994 RUSTENBURG—The first whiff of the hate in store came when we turned off the two-lane blacktop onto a dusty rutted road and a group of Boer commandos by a parked car glared at us. One of them, a huge pot-bellied man with a…