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2018-03-29 Africa Subsaharan

This Woman Just Became The First Person To Go To Prison For Racism In South Africa

[BuzzFeed] The woman, the first to be sentenced under South African laws criminalizing racist language, called two police officers "kaffirs," a highly offensive term for black South Africans.

NAIROBI ‐ For the first time in South African history, a court on Wednesday sentenced a white woman to prison for making racist comments, a judgment that has given some hope that charges of racism will be treated more seriously.

Vicki Momberg was sentenced to up to three years in prison for an incident that took place in Johannesburg in February 2016, when she was filmed making derogatory comments toward the black police officers who had responded to her call of a reported robbery. She was convicted last November of four counts of "crimen injuria," or the use of racially offensive language.

In the viral video, Momberg can be heard talking to someone on the phone about the police officers dispatched to the scene. She referred to them as "kaffirs," an offensive and derogatory term for black South Africans that was used during apartheid, and which lawmakers have in recent years tried to criminalize along with other forms of hate speech.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Wunderbar.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-29 02:20|| 2018-03-29 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 So the insult word for blacks in South Africa is the Arabic insult word for unbelievers. Fascinating.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-29 11:13|| 2018-03-29 11:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I once, in the shade of a num-num,
Was stuck by a thorny conundrum:
"Your native white flowers
Smell sweet without showers..."
"By gum," said a plum, "you're a dum-dum."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-03-29 14:06|| 2018-03-29 14:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Always mixing those two up (Natal plum and kaffir plum), which is strange, being there's about a thousand miles of C. macrocarpa hedge hereabouts.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-03-29 14:10|| 2018-03-29 14:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Recommend renaming it "Boer plum" in interest of equity.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-03-29 14:18|| 2018-03-29 14:18|| Front Page Top

#6 There is also the kaffir lime also known as Thai lime.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-03-29 16:16|| 2018-03-29 16:16|| Front Page Top

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