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Arthur Mafokate (born 10 July 1969) is a South African kwaito musician and producer. [1]: 95 In 1994, he released his debut album, Windy Windy, which included the hit "Amagents Ayaphanda". He became known as the "King of Kwaito" with many hit singles such as Kaffir, Oyi Oyi, Mnike, Twalatza, Zombo, Koti Koti, Poppe Dans, Seven Phezulu & Sika ...
A notable kwaito track titled "Kaffir" by Arthur Mafokate exemplified the freedom of expression that emerged with South Africa's political liberation. In the early 1990s, house music made its way to Cape Town through raves such as the World Peace Party and in iconic venues like Club Eden , followed by Euphoria and DV8.
Anton Goosen (born 5 March 1946 in Middelburg, Eastern Cape) [1] is a South African musician and songwriter. He became a pivotal figure in Afrikaans music and is generally regarded as the father of Afrikaans Rock.
Kaffir (/ ˈ k æ f ər /), [1] is an exonym and an ethnic slur – the use of it in reference to black people being particularly common in South Africa and to some degree Namibia and the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) In Arabic, the word kāfir ("unbeliever") was originally applied to non-Muslims of any ethnic background before becoming predominantly focused on pagan zanj (black African) who ...
Kaffir lime, a variety of lime fruit native to Indonesia also known as a makrut lime; Kaffir lily (disambiguation), one of two flowers found in southern Africa: Clivia miniata; Hesperantha coccinea; Kafir, kaffir or kaffircorn, another name for the grain sorghum; Kaffir boom (Erythrina lysistemon), a species of tree in the family Fabaceae
The main African Sri Lankans are known as Kaffirs. This term is not used as a racial pejorative as in other parts of the world. Some were originally Muslims, while others practiced African religions, but many have now converted to Catholicism and Buddhism. They speak a lyrical creole language with a mix of native Sinhalese and Tamil. [5]
Kaffraria, Kaffiria, or Kaffirland, was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of what is today the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Kaffraria, i.e., the land of the Kaffirs , is no longer an official designation [ 2 ] (with the term kaffir , originally the Arabic term for a non-believer in Islam, now considered an offensive racial slur ...
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