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 us,” I said.
The first punch landed on my neck. Another kicked me on the left hip. One man grabbed me in a strangle-hold. I wriggled free and stretched out my arms to ward off blows as arms from everywhere grabbed at and punch me and people yelled words at me in Afrikaans.
I just thought, “Wow, what the hell is going on here?”