A slur used to refer to indigenous black people in South Africa; derived from the Arabic term for "unbeliever", i.e. pagan.
1 There was one respectable thing in that store-itwas the Kaffer storeman.
2 An old Kaffer maid knelt at the door of one grinding mealies.
3 They walked round the foot of the kopje and past the Kaffer huts.
4 One day a snake curls itself round the waist of a Kaffer woman.
5 Our little wagon that we have made, we give to the little Kaffers .
6 Now the Kaffer maids were coming from the huts.
7 Saying this, he turned his nose full upon a small Kaffer of two years old.
8 Coming nearer, he found it was no other than the wife of the absconding Kaffer herd.
9 His Kaffer ; why should the sun hurt him?
10 I could not drive the Kaffer maid away because I was afraid of you, was I?
11 First, the stone-walled sheep kraals and Kaffer huts; beyond them the dwelling-house- asquare ,red-brickbuilding with thatched roof.
12 To walk about always in that dead-and-alive sort of way, muttering to himself like an old Kaffer witchdoctor!
13 The Kaffer girl threw some coffee on my arm in bed this morning; I felt displeased, but said nothing.
14 They passed the very milk-bush behind which so many years before the old German had found the Kaffer woman.
15 The Kaffer servants were not there because Tant Sannie held they were descended from apes, and needed no salvation.
16 He was an ill-looking Kaffer .
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