In the film Lethal Weapon 2, South African criminal Arjen Rudd (played by Joss Ackland), his colleague Pieter Vorstedt (played by Derrick O'Connor) and their followers frequently refer to Danny Glover's character Roger Murtaugh, who is African American, as a "kaffir".
South African cricket players complained that they were racially abused by some spectators during a December 2005 Test match against host country Australia held in Perth.