A PRETORIA English teacher resigned on Thursday after angry parents called him a “racist” for setting an exam based on a Herman Charles Bosman extract containing the word “kaffir”. The short story, “Unto Dust”, deals with a quarrel over the skeletons of a “boer soldier” and a “kaffir”, making the point that no-one can tell which is which. Teacher Chris Roos, who said he chose the passage to demonstrate to his Cullinan Combined School class that “in the face of death we are all the same,” faced demands from parents that he resign. Parents also demanded that the Gauteng education MEC inervene personally in the matter.