Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kleurlinge) are multiracial people in South Africa, Namibia and to a smaller extent, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Their ancestry descends from the interracial mixing that occurred between Europeans, Africans and Asians.

Mar 21, 2025 · Coloured, a person of mixed European (“white”) and African (“Black”) or Asian ancestry, as officially defined by the South African apartheid government from 1950 to 1991.

In South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswanan, and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (Kleurlinge in Afrikaans) is used to refer to people of mixed European and Khoisan or Bantu ancestry. They form the majority of the Northern Cape and Western Cape populations.

Cape Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurlinge) are a South African group of Coloured people who are from the Cape region in South Africa which consists of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape.

May 17, 2018 · South Africa 's 3.6 million mixed-race people are referred to as Cape Coloreds or Coloreds. In other places in the world, the word colored used to describe race is considered disparaging (negative or critical). In South Africa, it is used …

Coloured refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in Southern Africa who may have indigenous ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including African, European, and Asian. South Africa's Coloured people have some of the most diverse genetic backgrounds.

Sep 25, 2023 · Coloured is part memoir, part factual narrative exploring the difficult history and culture of communities in South Africa who have historically been classified as Coloured. They account for around 9% of the country’s population.

Jan 30, 2008 · The Coloureds share the same language and religion as the "white" Afrikaners, although separated from them by strong social and class distinctions. Today over half of the 7 million Afrikaans-speaking people in South Africa are "Coloured" people.

Jun 30, 2009 · History tells us that the Cape Coloureds are the result of unions between Europeans, mostly men, and colored women of various races. The most prominent of these are the indigenous peoples of the Cape, the Khoisan, who were the natives of South Africa before whites and Bantu Africans pushed in from the south and north respectively.

Sep 11, 1985 · South Africa's people of mixed descent are torn between white and black, but embraced totally by neither, a racial group of complexities and stratifications defined, in law, only by negatives.