Coloured - Apartheid and beyond

In the South African and Namibian context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners) refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Khoisan and white European descent. Many also have some degree of Malay, Malagasy, Black (Bantu) and South Indian ancestry, especially in the Western Cape. Some racially pure Khoisans with a European-rooted culture and identity are might also identify as and be considered as Coloureds. During the apartheid era, in orde ...

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Discriminated against by apartheid, Coloureds were as a matter of state policy forced to live in segregated townships - in some cases leaving homes their families had occupied for generations - and received an inferior education, though better than that provided to Black South Africans. They played an important role in the struggle against apartheid: for example the African Political Organisation established in 1902 had an exclusively Coloured membership. To note their segregation and demonstrate their identity ...

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The Oxford Dictionary of South African English reveals that the word "Coloured" has been used since the 1840s to refer specifically to South Africans of mixed race, while the term Cape Coloureds came into use around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. During the 19th century the people of Griqualand, who would now be known as Coloured, were known by the Afrikaans term Baastards. An offshoot of the Cape Coloureds now make up a separate ethnic group in south-central Namibia, known as the Rehoboth Basters, migrated to their current location in pre-German times. They have s ...

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Coloured, Coloured - The Coloureds, Coloured - Apartheid and beyond, Coloured - Southern Africa, Coloured - Other usage

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The term "Coloured" is also used to describe persons of mixed race in Namibia, to refer to those of part Khoisan, part white descent. The Basters of Namibia constitute a separate ethnic group that are sometimes considered a sub-group of the Coloured population of that country. Under South African rule, the policies and laws of apartheid were extended to what was then called South West Africa, and the treatment of Namibian Coloureds was co ...

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Coloured, Coloured - The Coloureds, Coloured - Apartheid and beyond, Coloured - Southern Africa, Coloured - Other usage

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