[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.