The International Botany Congress votes to remove apartheid slur from plant species names in Africa
In a thoroughly debated session in the recent meeting in Madrid, the vote passed 351 to 205 to rename all current botanical species (over 200) with the species name caffra to affra. “Caffra,” also spelled Kaffer or Keffir, is a derogatory term used by Afrikaans speakers towards black people in southern Africa.