Kaffir (racial term)

Kaffirs is an Arab from the kaafir ( disbeliever = ) -derived name, the first Muslims attached any two non-Muslim peoples, namely the Nuristani ( Kafirs ) in Central Asia and the Xhosa in Southern Africa.

Term use

The name was also used for the Christians in use. The European colonists and immigrants used it initially for the Xhosa. Later he completed a further Bantu peoples. Also covered is the origin of the Yiddish word Kafer for farmer, which was used in the Rogue and students of medieval as an insult. Naming as Cape buffalo, kaffir lime, British Kaffraria, Kaffrarian museum or Kaffir Express ( Journal of a mission school in the 19th century) can be seen that the term was initially used less judgmental. In the times of colonialism and of apartheid, however, it was used as an insult. On June 3, In 1976 the president of the court of the province of Natal found that the use of this term is offensive and sentenced a black man to pay a fine in the amount of 150 edge because he had based the word on the then minister of police and a police officer.

The use of the word is now banned in South Africa and Namibia as hate speech (hate word).

In Sri Lanka, however, the derived term Kaffir has no discriminatory meaning. There he called a descendant of African slaves of the Portuguese ethnicity. Your popular dance music style is a Kaffirinna resulting in the 1970 version of the African- Portuguese Baila.