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Hottie of the week
In a time of post-modern and post-colonial overlay, mirroring and reversal, the advertising in a shop window in Cradock pays no attention to the potentially embarrassing connotations of the word "Hottie". In the bad old days of white supremacy it might easily have been taken for a diminutive of the colloquial "hotnot", a term of contempt used to describe the "hottentot" and more generally "coloured" (but not Xhosa) people.
