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1920 Manch. Guardian 21 July 5/3 The readiness with which they co-operated with the British in ‘Kaffir shooting’.

1937 S. Cloete Turning Wheels (dust-jacket) Through this saga of Kaffir-killing and child-bearing and Bible-searching and irrepressible young laughter, are scattered unforgettable scenes.

1942 Scotsman 19 Dec. 6/4 In the widely read Farmers' Weekly the following advertisement or variations on it has been appearing off and on for years:—‘For sale, large, savage dogs, guaranteed to guard your stock and homestead; real Kaffir haters’.

1947 Scotsman 8 Aug. 7 The Rev. Michael Scott was invited by the Bethal farmers to address them, but at the meeting was howled down as a ‘Kaffir lover’.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Jan. 42/3 The autocratic Banda regime, supported by a kaffir-bashing white professional class.

1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 19 Sept. A woman reporter recently had a letter calling her a kaffir-loving bitch.

1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 277 Richard was wondering how the old kaffir-flogger had had time to get to dislike him.

1998 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 11 It's the kind of attitude which might just hinder promotion these days, never mind back then when Kaffir-beating was something a well-bred gent was adept at.

2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-Bang Club (2001) ii. 7 I never dreamed of going kaffir-bashing on Friday nights—a practice where gangs of drunken white kids looked for lone blacks to beat up.