Kaffir
an extremely offensive South African term for a black person, comparable to the N-word in the U.S.
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Tsotsis
African gangsters, often involved with organized crime.
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Bantu
People from Sub-Saharan Africa who speak the Ntu languages. In apartheid South Africa, the term commonly refers to black people more broadly.
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Apartheid
South Africa’s system of laws that enforced strict racial segregation, benefiting white people and disenfranchising black people, that existed from 1948 until the mid-1990s.
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Coloured
A term for a person of mixed European (white) and African (black) ancestry) used in South Africa during the apartheid.
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