Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. S.Afr.) a derog. term for a black person.

1948		O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 77: Wilson had a friendly paternal attitude towards the Native. ‘Treat Jim all right, and he’s all right with you. [...] It’s the towns that muck the munt up.’.
1957		C. MacInnes City of Spades (1964) 22: My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.
1978		D. Marechera House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘What do you want with my mother, munt? Begging for arse?’.
1995		A. Higgins Donkey’s Years 270: Brink by name and brink by nature, the bane of kaffirs and munts.
1999		Dallas Morning News 28 Nov. 39A: ‘Do you think your problems are insur-moont-able, Kefas?’ sing-songs the housewife in mock sweetness.
2008		Mail and Guardian (Johannesburg) 12 Oct. 🌐 You call me Boer, Whiteboy [...] Whiter, Settler, White Trash [...] but when I call you nigger, kaffir, [...] muntu or gook, you call me a racist.