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A genetic clustering of South African Coloured and five source populations. [6] Each vertical bar represents individual. Coloureds ( Afrikaans: Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people. The intermixing of different races began in the Cape province ...
Cape Coloureds(Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurlinge) are a South Africanethnicclassification consisting primarily of persons of mixed raceAfrican, Asian and European descent. Demographics. [edit] Although Colouredsform a minority group within South Africa, they are the predominant population group in the Western Cape.
Former Coloured townships in South Africa (14 P) Pages in category "Coloured South African people" The following 124 pages are in this category, out of 124 total.
[4] [3] Statistics South Africa asks people to describe themselves in the census in terms of five racial population groups. [5] The 2022 estimates were 81.4% Black or Indigenous South African, 8.2% Coloured South African, 7.3% White South African, and 2.7% Indian South African. [6]: 21
South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. Almost all South Africans speak English to some degree of proficiency, in addition to their native language, with English acting as a lingua franca in commerce, education, and government. [1] [2] South Africa has eleven official languages, but other indigenous languages are spoken by ...
Griqua was the name given to a mixed-race culture in the Cape Colony of South Africa, around the 17th and 18th centuries (Taylor, 2020). They were also known as Hottentots before Europeans arrived in their lands where they lived as close-knit families. [3] [contradictory] Griqua people s multiple historical backgrounds have interwoven with ...
South African English(SAfE, SAfEn, SAE, en-ZA)[a]is the set of English language dialectsnative to South Africans. History. [edit] Britishsettlers first arrived in the South African region in 1795, when they established a military holding operation at the Cape Colony.
Basters are closely related to Afrikaners, Cape Coloureds, and Griquas of South Africa and Namibia, with whom they share a largely Afrikaner-influenced culture and Afrikaans language. Other groups of similar mixed ethnic origin, living chiefly in the Northern Cape, also refer to themselves as Basters.