For those confused about the Coloureds & their distinction between Blacks or simply 'mixed race' people's, I'll give a summarized description below. For context, I lived in/around Cape Town for about 5 years, my wife/in-laws are all Coloured & I've studied their history at some length: Coloureds are a distinct ethnic group predominately in the Western & Northern Cape and as far east as Port Elizabeth. They had a couple independent republics further east at the time of the the Afrikaner great trek as well called Griqualand. Their African admixture was typically Khoi/San, not Bantu. In Cape Town they might wellhaven Malay ancestry as well. The Malasian influence on cuisine spread universally throughout the Coloured people in South Africa as well (TONS of curry). Culturally they have no tribal affiliation, unlike Bantus or Bushmen, have been largely westernized for centuries (similar to Mestizos in the Americas) & practiced Christianity since their ethnogenesis in the 17th-early 18th century. One of the first governors of the Cape Colony, Simon Van der Stel, was actually a 1st/2nd generation Coloured. The city of Stellenbosch outside of Cape Town is named after him. Linguistically they're responsible for largely altering the Dutch language unto what became Afrikaans, which is spoken by them and the Afrikaners (boers) as their primary language. Partially due to their shared ancestry with the Afrikaners & co-mingling with them since Dutch arrival to the Cape, they've lived in the same communities as them, though in different neighborhoods for centuries. They do not consider themselves 'black' for all of these reasons, nor does anybody else in South Africa. Blacks, until quite recently, lived further east & north from the coloureds. If you ever visit Cape Town you will notice very different phenotype & cultural differences between Coloureds and the Bantu blacks who live in the city. Now somebody like Trevor Noah is mixed race but not Coloured. Reason being is that his mother was Xhosa, his father was Swiss, he grew up in a black township of Soweto in Johannesburg & spoke English & Xhosa. He did/does not have the cultural, linguistic, regional & the ethnic heritage of being Coloured. In fact, in certain areas like Mitchell's Plain & the adjoining black townships like Philipi, Nyanga & Khyletshia, there can be quite a bit of racial/ethnic tension, particularly where these areas bump up against each other, largely due to issues of crime. Politically Coloureds vote contrary to the large majority of the black population as well, and when polled on the subject, tend to favor secession of the Western Cape from the rest of South Africa. Hope that helps.
I once had a good friend who was from South Africa. He told me he was of mixed race - HALF BLACK, HALF-COLORED!! As an American of Afro-Caribbean descent, I must admit I was initially SO confused!! He said he got a similar reaction from other black Americans. But as we got better acquainted, I realized I was seeing things through American eyes. I've learned A LOT more about South Africa since.
Thats what a lot of Black Americans are mixed with too. At some point our White/Black mixed (Hate use the term but Mulatto) grandparent married a Black person.
@@J-God_1999 the coloureds in South Africa are an afrikaans speaking community with diverse ancestry . It's not just about their ancestry but also their culture. For example the average african-american is 80% west-central african and 20% european but a congolese or nigerian with european admixture up to 20% won't identify as an AA just because he happens to be similar to a lot of them. Why? Because he was brought up in a specific culture and community, same things for coloureds
I am coloured. My sons are Swiss, but proud to be Bruin Ous. Flash around snaps of them in Swiss military uniform proudly holding up the South African flag.😁😁
According to the law of the land , a person of mixed race is termed coloured , going back to the apartheid unchanged race classification laws . Therefore Trevor IS COLOURED !
I'm black South African 🇿🇦 at a younger we were given so many misconception about our coloured brothers and sister up until I was old enough to judge for myself and discovered that they such welcoming and warm hearted ❤❤ people plus eish they have very good looking women yesesss😂
What U left out in ur presentation is that under Apartheid, the Coloreds were placed higher than Black people and also, enjoyed special treatment. They enjoyed their position as the 'buffer race' between Whites and Blacks. A position which the Colored really valued. It was like, 'I may not be White, but don't U ever treat me as a Black'!
That's the best the European man could do for his offspring 🤷🏽♀️ place them a little higher than others, that my friend is not of our own making, so quit your hatred. Romans 2:11
South african History doesn't start with apartheid. Remember, apartheid lasted less than 50 years. Coloured people(khoi and Malay slaves) were the first people in south africa who were negatively affected by colonialism, this was way before Europeans even came into contact with 'bantu' people in south africa. 'coloured people' were enslaved for 100 years before Europeans made contact with 'bantu people'. One of the problems we have in south africa is that most of our history has been suppressed or forgotten. 'black' south Africans seem to think they were the only victims of apartheid. Yes, coloured people were treated slightly better than black people under apartheid, that doesn't mean that we didn't suffer. Why don't you ever talk about Indians who were treated better than coloureds and blacks? I think you have something against coloureds.
Yes I too am proud to be coloured but why portray all couloured as gangsters and rappers.Pls show the world who the decent and cultured couloureds really are too.proud to be S.African.
& they didn't portray all coloureds as rappers : gangsters.. she mentioned that we made sport, entertainment & political contributions. Think U need watch da video again haha
Don't want to be called Black but can take Black culture like rap and if you never read "The Willie Lynch letter I am posting it in the comments about how the white people divided us by giving the lighter skinned Blacks ( that they raped their mothers ) more privileges than the darker Blacks. I am disgusted that anywhere on Earth there are still people so proud to be what they used to call all Black people in Amerikkka ( colored) we rejected that in the 1960's with " I am Black and I'm Proud " and Black Power. So sad to see they can end Apartheid but can't take away the Apartheid mentality. GOD willing Julius Malema will bring you to your senses. There is no such race as colored, come to Amerikkka and parts of Europe and they will see you as the N-words.
@@aubreeriley818 As black American I totally understand ursulavanleeve. Rap is one part of youth culture but people overly place that rap dynamic on an entire culture when the parents wouldn't even identify with that. Show the foods, dances, folklore etc don't put some kids throwing up gang signs as someone's entire culture that's ignorant especially when most rappers are talking about drugs and sex. That's not how you dignify your people.
Coloureds are an ethnic group, and isn't based on skin tone, just because Trevor Noah and Sho Majozi are mixed doesn't mean they are Coloured, they identify as Black..Trevor will most like say he is Xhosa because he grew up in that culture...
Actually Trevor identified as BI-RACIAL , he rightfully acknowledges his white ancestry . I don't get why black Bantu south Africans want to force coloured people to call themselves black !🤔☹️
Trevor Noah can be who he WANTS TO BE. If his SWISS father had married his Mum he would also be here in Switzerland like so many other Swiss coloured children like my sons.
They don't really know who the so called Coulered is. Before this, known as Khoi Khoi, it was not even their real name. Know Khoi was just a referring to who they really was. Best kept secret by only those who really knows
I’m coloured and moved overseas. I never say I’m black because black South African culture is so different to how I grew up. But saying I’m coloured means I have to explain it over and over. Now I just say I’m mixed and that my ancestry is from all over the world.
all these k@k comments about us coloured people pls do your research about us ,one thing to clear what people get wrong about the coloured people of south africa is that its more then just about the colour of your skin its more of a culture then the colour of your skin infect we have all types of coloured people we have coloured people that can pass as just black and we have light skin coloureds that can pass as white and we have coloured people like the cape malay coloured and most of them are muslim and there is a difference between a mixed person which is the first mixed person in a family and a coloured which is a multiracial ethnic group and the term coloured was forced upon our ancestors and we embraced and i am proud to say i am a south african coloured "'awe mase kind''
@@janomesteve3129 You realise colourism is throughout the Americas and Asia? It's more prevalent in India where the people with darker skin are placed at the bottom of the caste system. They use to call them untouchables. I'm not sure if this is still the case. All these issues were instigated by Europeans, unfortunately the people this was directed at have internalised it.
@@icilmaa its kinda different,as my great grandparents were already coloured,mots mixed in the usa come from either white or black parents,or asian and white ect as for us my parents are coloured so was my grandparents and there parents and so on we been mixed for generations.
What you left out is that under apartheid we not deemed to white enough, and now under ANC we are not deemed to be black enough, therefore the racist discrimination continue. Have the new racist employment laws? Yea, that one.
And what you don't seem to know is that BEE (black economic empowerment) actually includes all races that were oppressed under apartheid, indians ( e.g Guptas) including chinese. You probably don't know your politics as usual. You still want to follow your master after why not because they classed as second class citizens while blacks were classified as third class citizens so at times your confusion is understandable. Btw both my paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather were 'coloureds' so i don't really have issues with coloureds but they don't seem to care about understanding SA politics. You've just exposed that fact in your comment.
Its seems YOU dont understandstand SA politics.IF it is the case about BEE why is there a race cassification on all goverment application forms.???? In fact on all employment application forms??????@@clementmpushe5957
I always find then to be very sweet people, I always find it easy to joke with them and laugh while my Xhosa Sisters would be like ' yehake undiqhelele phi na lona'
I always find then to be very sweet people, I always find it easy to joke with them and laugh while my Xhosa Sisters would be like ' yehake undiqhelele phi na lona'
@justjoey6939 But it's your country and in your country your culture suffices. In the U.S. our Black American Culture suffices. We really don't care what you call yourselves in your country. Leave us out of your equation. We stamped the names of the COLONIZERS OUT and we are not reintroducing that word here for anyone! As long as we treat you with respect that should be all you should be concerned about with Black Americans.
I'm a Cape Malay Coloured. Although for others in the world the term "Coloured" might be derogatory, but we turned that "oppressive" term into our identity and culture, to show that we are so much more than that term. I always hear people say we just want to be white and speak the "white man's language Afrikaans". Firstly my reason for identifying myself as Coloured is the fact that I honoured both my African Khoisan, South Asian as well as my South East Asian heritage because they all went through a lot for me to be here. Secondly Afrikaans was never the "White man's language" the language was created by the Khoisan and Asian slaves(South East Asia and South Asia), because they were forced to speak Dutch but refuse to and created this with some of their language words incorporated into it such as Piesang(which means Banana) and Sosatie(which means Kebab) both Malay words in Afrikaans and words like eina(which means ouch) and gogga(which means insect) coming from the Nama languages of the Khoi and San people. The colonizers just perfected the language because they were more literate. Hence why mostly White and Coloured South African 🇿🇦 speak the language. It's like a "creole based Dutch". So for me by saying you black and is actually mixed. You actually throwing your other half of whatever you mixed with in the bin. If I travel to the US for example and is classified as "Black Only" that would be fine by me because that is their country's policies, but I would always be coloured by ethnicity✌️
daar stem ek my ma se ma My ouma was ok kleuring soos ek verstaan Ja ons is n groot mengsels Ek blonde hare blou oe praat Afrikaans Maar soos ek dinge verstaan ons taal wat ons praat Was verander daai tyd sodat die ander nasies met oorlog tyd nie kon verstaan nie Jip ek stem Maar as wit persoon Glo my ek verstaan als ❤
@@angieharvett5591 Ja die taal was so bietjie verander, maar baie "swart" Suid Afrikaners is onder die indruk dat die taal(Afrikaans) net aan "wit" Suid Afrikaners behoort maar weet nie dat die Malays and Khoi en San mense ook ñ bydra daar in het nie. Soos ek verstaan van my ouers af. My Pa se kant is ñ mengsel van Indonesië(Malay en eiland van Java), Oos Africa and maklik Arabies. My Ma se kant, my Ouma was ñ platterlandse meisie met ñ mengsel van Nederlands en Khoisan(Afrika) blood, waar my Oupa(ñ stads man) weer ñ mengsel van Malay and Indiese afkomstig is. Baie in my family kan slaag as net wit, asië en swart. So die gemengsel in baie groot 🙂
@@lukholomacala9145 Thanks man. I appreciate that. You need to travel to Cape Town ma man and get you a lovely coloured lady. One of my Xhosa friends was dating a coloured girl in my High School years, they were a very popular couple on the school, because they looked so well together 👌. I nearly tired the knot with a beautiful Xhosa girl, but her family was very traditional and wanted her to marry someone in there culture. I understood her parents point of view and we broke up and remain friends to this day 😉👍🫂
So this video is being used in case about Cape Coloured in particular. TREVOR NOAH is not a Coloured in a South African or Genetic sense. Plus, early in his career, I witnessed him expressing his feelings about being mistaken for one in 2003. I refer to the incident in a court case
@@Marysmmiiith Most white Europeans have no idea that "Coloureds" in South (and Southern) Africa denotes a new racial subcategory of people who have emerged over the last 4 centuries and are a mix of black, khoisan, Indian, Malaysian and white in varying degrees. My wife is Cape Coloured whereas as I'm white Afrikaner.
@@jasonvoorhees6152 I agree , I think Trevor meant to say he's not Cape coloured . According to the law of the land , all mixed race people are termed COLOURED .
In the Apartheid era, Trevor Noah would have likely been classified Coloured, but because a non-native in-colony culture & Dutch (Afrikaans) linguistics became the basis of the Coloured label, a person who is of mixed race today would not likely define themselves as coloured if not part of the generally Afrikaans (Dutch) -speaking culture.
They are an attractive people that's for sure(women, talking about the women😊) and I actually studied with a young lady from sa as an undergraduate. From what I hear she's doing quite well bless her heart. Very very nice. Please keep coming out with more vlogs!!
Coloureds of South Africa are like the Mestizos of Latin America. Their physical appearance, cultural practices and languages are mix of various influences whether its indigenous, colonial or from immigrant groups.
Gotcha Chris.We look more like Hawaiians with our fair/olive skin ,light eyes wavy hair,it's why I hang out on the big island.That and the blue water fishing!
This kind of admixture is going on in every corner of the world . With easier communication , travel etc. this mixing of races is bound to happen . In the not too distant future , a sizable and growing group will emerge , in every part of the world , whose identities may not be pinned down to a particular racial group. I , first went to South Africa (Durban) in 1969 , when I was 22 . We were briefed on the groupings and the mechanics of apartheid , to avoid getting into trouble. However I did sneak a photograph ,now faded , seated on a bench labeled " For Europeans Only " at a park in Durban with Gen. Smuts, statue , back turned to me . I guess , he just looked the other way.
Wow! This is why I love speaking to elder people. So wise, intellectual, worldly, and open minded. Those experiences may not be good, but are priceless. Thanks for sharing 🥰
please do not make my culture just another one. I am cape coloured not coloured, and yes there are mixed races in the world but usually black mixed with white.. there is nothing like us anywhere else. it is enough these black people keep us down just like the white man did please do not go around making us even more irrelevant. We are the nomadic people of Cape Town yet we being pushed out or they are trying to push us out just because they feel that we had an easier time than them in apartheid when I had family members stand with them, my family was put out of District six . So please I get you were in Durban but Durban was predominantly Indian that time two different cultures.. now there is not even Indians in Durban almost anymore because it has been taken over. We are sick and tired of not being seen #Proudcoloured
I'm a colored person and I like watching videos about South Africa even though I live here. I've had this idea for a long time that I would like to make UA-cam videos about the issues that affect coloured people. Many videos are about the American perspective and mixed race people who are half-half. I see the black pride, but I've always wondered where is the coloured pride?
More COLOUREDS need to trace their ancestral roots . So many don't realise they are direct descendants of the FIRST NATION people . The United Nations has recognised and affirmed the Khoi/San as the only true indigenous people of SA . Thus the black Bantu Nguni tribes are all mere migrants in the land of the Khoi and San . The FIRST NATION and their descendants are the sole custodians of the land , this places the many so called coloureds above and ahead of the black Bantu imposters , who's indigenous homeland is north of the Limpopo river , up to the Congo !
@@GodsWillShallBeDone-xt5id what's with this obsession of trying to make everybody black ??? Why ? Concerning Mandela , it's interesting to note , that he very likely had Dutch blood !
@@yardhe7290and being mixed as you are, you are furthest from being a native in our soil. You know well that your ancestors is made up of malasian , asian and indians who came as slaves as well as european who cane in ships . so dont get ahead of yourself. You are way more foreign than the "bantu" people you speak of who are more related to the khoisan than you will ever be. Go get your land from outside the soil of africa if you will
Some mixed people dont go by colored but choose to go by black and their tribe name. Not all biracial people in South Africa automatically identify as colored. My cousins are biracial and identify as black and Zulu
I think that comes down to social circumstance, I do identify as coloured but I feel like circumstantial because where I'm from there are people with darker skin then me, some of them are of African decent, some are from Indian and evens Indonesian decent but they are identify as coloured, our country is so diverse and that's what makes it so great, coloured is a proudly South African product🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
@@racerray3693 Coloured was created by Europeans as a label and category. What gives them the right and power to tell people how they should be identified?
Who cares bra, that happened, it's done, who in the world isn't feeling the effects of European Colonisation, are you gonna hold the crimes against humanity at that time against the victims then you should you should hold yourself accountable as well🤷🤷🤷
a stranger asked if i was from south africa (i’m a black american) and now i’m understanding why. i look like a lot of these people and a lot of them i would also consider to be black. it’s very odd to me but i am learning
@@christopherross727 as a coloured you probably right we do share alot of things with the african american folks culture wise the negative and positive.
Why did you only mention the Mt-DNA (maternal line/lineage) of the Cape Coloureds of South Africa and not mention the Y-DNA (Paternal lines/lineages) of them? IIRC, the Y-DNA lineages of the Cape Coloureds are mainly a mix of European (mainly Dutch) and SSA (mainly Bantu with some West African and Khoisan). There's also a little South and Southeast Asian Y-DNA within them too.
What revisionism. Coloureds African ancestry, where they have any, is a blend of agro-pastoralist, pastoralist & hunter-gatherer just as all black South Africans have. But Coloureds are also Asian and Caucasian. Some have no native African ancestry at all. Agro-pastoralist culture adopted the Bantu-speaking lingistics (really a hybrid linguistics in SA context, hence clicks) but are genetically a blend of agro-pastoralist, pastoralist and hunter gatherer. These are all among Coloured ancestry.
The Dutch East India (VOC) was a Dutch company but many of their employees and settlers were not Dutch. They were from several European countries. That's probably why white Afrikaans South Africans neither look nor sound Dutch, and many don't have Dutch surnames.
The Coloured community in the Western Cape is a diverse group of people with multicultural roots, including indigenous African, European, Asian, and Southeast Asian ancestries. The term "Coloured" refers to individuals who are of mixed ethnic origin and is a socially and politically complex issue in South Africa. The Western Cape province has the highest percentage of Coloured people in South Africa, making up approximately 50% of the population. The community has a rich cultural heritage, with influences from various civilizations, such as the Khoisan, Dutch, Malay, and other African tribes. In recent years, the Coloured community has faced challenges, such as high levels of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. The SA Genome Project 2021 aims to address some of these challenges by providing genetic research and data to improve healthcare and social policies for all South Africans, including the Coloured community.
The cape coloured community was largely formed around the Khoi tribe , and to a lesser extent the San . Inter marrying with the black Bantu Nguni tribes was very rare .
You are confusing mixed race with being coloured. Being coloured goes deeper than just being of mixed race, it's also about culture too and so some of the people you mentioned here, like Trevor Noah, Sho Madjozi and Amanda du Pont, much as they are of mixed race background, they do not identify as coloured. Do further research next time.
Trevor Noah, Amanda Dupont and Sho Majozi are not classified as colored in the home affairs registry, for Amanda its even worse because she is born in Swaziland l, there is nothing like 'coloured' in Swaziland
This is 1 mixed race culture(respect). In Namibia there is another 1. A smaller group called Baster, derived from the English word bastard. They moved from De Tuin in the Western Cape in the late 1870's and bought farmland from the Nama people( sub tribe of the San formerly Bushmen). They called their new home Rehoboth. We are farmers and builders by trade.
@@lindokuhle80 what are you talking about. You have clearly not filled in forms where the options for race come up. What do you think Chinese , Indonesians etc are called here
Wow! I'm stunned to learn that the word " Colored" has a specific meaning of the ethnicity of these beautiful race of people. I've learned something new today. Love from this African American from the states. I hope to visit Cape Town soon.❤
Thank you for being so accepting and kind with your words. As a Cape Coloured I see a lot of similarities and contrast to the AA community and it scares and excited me at the same time.
@@adrian100 You're welcome brother. I've always been interested in South African history and culture. I'm planning on visiting soon. I'd also have to find a guide. May I ask, what makes you feel scared about African Americans?
I see south africa cricketers and the audience in the stadium when there match is held. They are all of different colours supporting SA, so I always have wondered the reason.❤
The separation between white and coloured did not happen immediately as this video suggests. No white Afrikaner is pure white. The first Dutch settlers mostly came without their women and married Khoisan. It was the French Huguenots running away from religious persecution who were the first to come with all their women and also with a strict version of the Calvinist religion. Why apartheid was so stupid is that many families have members in more than one racial category. Some even in 3! The Coloured Xhosa have not been mentioned here either. Of mixed race they speak Xhosa as a first language and Afrikaans as a second language. The real situation is even more complex than this video makes out. I will not bore people with the complexities within my own family. Long Live South Africa! Long Live Africa!
This isn't about the Afrikaner, though. The world treats them (you?) as white, the system treats them (you? )as white so that's what they (you?) are, regardless of a miniscule percentage of KhoiSan DNA. I'm sick of whites forever inserting themselves (yourselves?) into the conversation whenever we talk about Coloureds.
I see there are so much videos of foreigners in my cape town and saying how beautiful it is , yet none of them has one coloured in it , just black people . what pisses me off and I do not know if my fellow CAPE COLOURED PEOPLE feel the same , but we are the original people of Cape Town , yet on these videos the black people says we have to learn their language cause this is their country ?????? When are we going to get the respect ? no they should learn ours , we get taught their language in schools they do not teach our mengels ? We are being pushed out of our own city where must we go? we were born and bred here, they want our city cause they know our city brings in the tourism and can be run apart from South Africa , I hate that our kids have to resort to gangsterism because they have a stigma put on them, and do not get jobs other than low paying ones , they give blacks and foreigners the jobs instead.. I truly Hope that one day we will become our own country cause this sh*t is getting out of hand now. also this video is not telling the right story , if you going to speak about my people do it properly!! there is a difference between coloured and cape coloured!!!!!! I LOVE MY DAMN PEOPLE AND MY CULTURE EN ONS WIET HULLE KRY A KAK VIR ONS EVEN WITH OUR STRUGGLES WE ARE A GREAT PEOPLE! KYK WAT DOEN HULLE MEN OSSE KLOPSE? THAT WAS OUR HERITAGE AND CULTURE AND WHAT THE BLACK MAN DO? TRY AND INSERT THEMSELVES IN IT AND NOW IT IS LITERALLY A NON EVENT! EK IS JAS VIR DAAI KAK CAUSE THAT WAS OURS!
The group @2:41 who are they; Is it spelled Gree-kwah? Also, so many of the people in the video look just like African-Americans, but the culture and heritage is obviously different. It's Interesting.
Trevor Noah is not from the community you describe, his mother was Black, his father is from Europe and they had an illegal child, he was raised in the black community during apartheid and they had to hide him at all times. Read his book, it's marvelous, it is literally called "born a crime" lol. Any who I'm Canadian, but, this is basically my genetic make up described in the video, my family passed easily for white and has for generations, we just don't show anyone our palms back in the day, total give away with wider pigmented palmer lines.
@@africaine4889 Yes, they are mixed but not all are visibly mixed. such as Benni McCarthy, also from cape town but looks like a typical "black" African. It is the same when referring to black Americans, Some have light-colored eyes, and straight hair, and 95% of all black Americans have at least 15-20% European ancestry. Therefore they are technically "mixed" but they are just called "black" for example Barack Obama. Being coloured is more of a culture in South Africa. Many mixed people in South Africa are not coloureds culturally, like Trevor Noah, he is more Xhosa than anything.
@@AfroArtistaFilmsYes, he would be called coloured at first glance but at further inspection, they would differentiate between him and a coloured person. Even he has spoken about people confusing him for a coloured person. Coloureds are mixed but not all are visibly mixed. such as Benni McCarthy, also from cape town but looks like a typical "black" African. It is the same when referring to black Americans, Some have light-coloured eyes, and straight hair, and 95% of all black Americans have at least 15-20% European ancestry. Therefore they are technically "mixed" but they are just called "black" for example Barack Obama. Being coloured is more of a culture in South Africa. Many mixed people in South Africa are not coloureds culturally, like Trevor Noah, he is more Xhosa than anything.
Being colored of clora of what ever you want to call me is a culture, a history, generations of ancestors, roots in many tribes across the world with a deep sense of who we are, where we come from and the ability to endure. Bryan Vermeulen Ceres Western. Cape. Cape Colored
I always wanted to do a DNA test to see what else is mixed in with what I already know of: Grieqwua (khoi san and Dutch or German) Madagascar, India/Pakistan, Britain and Africa. How much of each I don't know. I guess you can say I am an African of many races.
It seems, though, that whatever their racial components, the Coloured are much closer culturally to their European ancestors, in terms of religion, language, etcetera. I think it was just the policy of apartheid that made them into a separate group.
@emiliam.7441 Not so. You might be ignorant to the fact that there are a lot of overlap with African tribal culture too. From food to how families and community are cohesive. Language is different. Originally Afrikaans originated from Coloured slaves in the Cape. It is a mixture of their own Khoisan ancestors and that of their masters. Originally called "Die Kombuuis Taal" translated to The Kitchen Language because the people who spoke it were the slaves serving them. They were also the Dutch owners child minders and it was their way of conversing with those kids. This is how Afrikaans came to be. In Natal most Coloured people speak both Zulu and English fluently from their ancestors except for the native tongues of their Indian ancestors. I can attest to the fact that White culture was more foreign to me than African culture. It was always easier to make friends with Black South Africans than White. This can be attributed to the dissimilarity with White culture. Even down accents.
This is what I found in a book called The Ethnic Phenomenon: "The Coloureds are... linguistically, culturally and religiously almost completely Europeanized. Except for a small minority of Muslim 'Cape Malays,' South African Coloureds are, but for skin pigmentation, poverty and stigmatization, virtually undistinguishable from South African 'whites.'" Perhaps the Coloureds are like Latin American mestizos and mulattoes, who culturally are almost entirely European.
@emiliam.7441 So, some white sociologist gave an opinion based on what quantitative research? I have lived experience as a Coloured person myself! Ask my Welsh sister in law and her family why it was hard for her to fit in. So much she had to have coulciling to settle into a Coloured culture, which was foreign to her own. Her efforts are appreciated because it shows regard. Whatever your opinion is not important or relevant to me as a Coloured person, the fact remains that is merely what it is, an opinion formed from books.
Many forget that the Coloureds are genetically intergenerationally mixed people. Their biology makes them who they are followed by their Cape Creole culture
Glad I ran into this video. As a Black African born and raised in the United States, now residing in South Africa since 2016; I was always confused and curious with the term, coloured.
I'm just as confused with the term Black and White 🥴as far as I know, you cannot describe or label human beings according these terminology or profile... it's stupid and confusing to say the least 🤔
Not true , the KHOI together with the San are the only true indigenous people of SA . It's all the black Bantu Nguni tribes that are not indigenous to SA .
A few in inaccuracies and an incomplete video/narration. I wonder how Zola Budd feels about suddenly being identified as coloured? That gave me a bit of a giggle.
1. **Colored**: In the South African context, "colored" historically referred to people of mixed race ancestry, usually of Khoisan, African, European, and/or Asian descent. This term was used during the apartheid era to categorize individuals who did not fit into the strict racial categories of "White" or "Black." 2. **Cape Colored**: This specifically refers to people of mixed-race descent in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The term "Cape Colored" emerged during the colonial and apartheid periods and denotes a distinct cultural and ethnic group within South Africa. Cape Colored people have a unique cultural identity shaped by their mixed heritage and historical experiences in the Western Cape. .
So why we such outcast lmao why all the fuss American more clued up with aliens than us hey just sad thou iu guy's need send sumone yit best scientist's to cum study us lol sure the alien s has mixed sum Pitbull DNA or sum shit in ours hey
Basically in Apartheid South Africa it was West European Whites at top, followed by Coloureds, then South East Asians, Then Desis, Then Khois, Then Sans, Then Bantus at the very bottom yeah.
As a person who grew up in Eldorado Park, this is a really kak video with a lot of misrepresentation and conjecture. It is very myopic in the views expressed and misses the vastness of coloured life, culture and heritage and all the shades and influences in between. Julle kan sommer sien ek was in die Engelse klas, ne!? 😂🙈😭 Awee! Have a great day. Shap, shap👍
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For those confused about the Coloureds & their distinction between Blacks or simply 'mixed race' people's, I'll give a summarized description below. For context, I lived in/around Cape Town for about 5 years, my wife/in-laws are all Coloured & I've studied their history at some length:
Coloureds are a distinct ethnic group predominately in the Western & Northern Cape and as far east as Port Elizabeth. They had a couple independent republics further east at the time of the the Afrikaner great trek as well called Griqualand. Their African admixture was typically Khoi/San, not Bantu. In Cape Town they might wellhaven Malay ancestry as well. The Malasian influence on cuisine spread universally throughout the Coloured people in South Africa as well (TONS of curry).
Culturally they have no tribal affiliation, unlike Bantus or Bushmen, have been largely westernized for centuries (similar to Mestizos in the Americas) & practiced Christianity since their ethnogenesis in the 17th-early 18th century. One of the first governors of the Cape Colony, Simon Van der Stel, was actually a 1st/2nd generation Coloured. The city of Stellenbosch outside of Cape Town is named after him. Linguistically they're responsible for largely altering the Dutch language unto what became Afrikaans, which is spoken by them and the Afrikaners (boers) as their primary language.
Partially due to their shared ancestry with the Afrikaners & co-mingling with them since Dutch arrival to the Cape, they've lived in the same communities as them, though in different neighborhoods for centuries. They do not consider themselves 'black' for all of these reasons, nor does anybody else in South Africa. Blacks, until quite recently, lived further east & north from the coloureds. If you ever visit Cape Town you will notice very different phenotype & cultural differences between Coloureds and the Bantu blacks who live in the city. Now somebody like Trevor Noah is mixed race but not Coloured. Reason being is that his mother was Xhosa, his father was Swiss, he grew up in a black township of Soweto in Johannesburg & spoke English & Xhosa. He did/does not have the cultural, linguistic, regional & the ethnic heritage of being Coloured.
In fact, in certain areas like Mitchell's Plain & the adjoining black townships like Philipi, Nyanga & Khyletshia, there can be quite a bit of racial/ethnic tension, particularly where these areas bump up against each other, largely due to issues of crime. Politically Coloureds vote contrary to the large majority of the black population as well, and when polled on the subject, tend to favor secession of the Western Cape from the rest of South Africa. Hope that helps.
This should be pinned.
Very well explained., 💕
100% , well said !👍
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Very good...
I once had a good friend who was from South Africa. He told me he was of mixed race - HALF BLACK, HALF-COLORED!! As an American of Afro-Caribbean descent, I must admit I was initially SO confused!! He said he got a similar reaction from other black Americans. But as we got better acquainted, I realized I was seeing things through American eyes. I've learned A LOT more about South Africa since.
Do you believe that orange Africans exists. We have proof of the existence of orange Africans on this channel
Thats what a lot of Black Americans are mixed with too. At some point our White/Black mixed (Hate use the term but Mulatto) grandparent married a Black person.
This is exactly why Trevor Noah isn't coloured. He's half Xhosa nd half Swiss. It makes him mixed but being coloured is sm more than just being mixed.
@@Ian-yf2bd I thought I understood the difference between mixed and colored until your comment. Haha, now I'm confused again.
@@J-God_1999 the coloureds in South Africa are an afrikaans speaking community with diverse ancestry . It's not just about their ancestry but also their culture. For example the average african-american is 80% west-central african and 20% european but a congolese or nigerian with european admixture up to 20% won't identify as an AA just because he happens to be similar to a lot of them. Why? Because he was brought up in a specific culture and community, same things for coloureds
❤ Proudly Coloured right here 😊
Do you believe that orange Africans exists. We have proof of the existence of orange Africans on this channel
ISSOE!
I am coloured. My sons are Swiss, but proud to be Bruin Ous. Flash around snaps of them in Swiss military uniform proudly holding up the South African flag.😁😁
Proud of what exactly?
My fuckin skin Colour
Trevor is not Coloured, he is mixed race. People still don't understand Coloured, that's why the stupid comments, even from Black South Africans.
We never said trevor is colored
He's mixed race But classified as coloured in South Africa
According to the law of the land , a person of mixed race is termed coloured , going back to the apartheid unchanged race classification laws . Therefore Trevor IS COLOURED !
in SA coloured IS mixed race - it is simply another term for it....
Agree 👍
They look so much like Brazilian people! Brazil has a lot of mixtures like that too.
South Africa is just as mixed as Brazil
@@stezano430. But more Brazilian identify as Black.
@@stezano430 no south africa is not as mixed as brazil brazil is 45.1% mixed race and south africa is 10% mixed race
@@jusadude186no more Brazilians identify as negro not black more brazilians identify as pardo
But way more beautiful
I'm black South African 🇿🇦 at a younger we were given so many misconception about our coloured brothers and sister up until I was old enough to judge for myself and discovered that they such welcoming and warm hearted ❤❤ people plus eish they have very good looking women yesesss😂
YES. 👏🏻
Mixed Masala ! 😁
Yes, we've got beautiful women.
They're not your brothers they're half breed abominations fathered by white males. You should be disgusted by them
They're really dope❤
What U left out in ur presentation is that under Apartheid, the Coloreds were placed higher than Black people and also, enjoyed special treatment. They enjoyed their position as the 'buffer race' between Whites and Blacks. A position which the Colored really valued. It was like, 'I may not be White, but don't U ever treat me as a Black'!
That is what I was thinking.
That's the best the European man could do for his offspring 🤷🏽♀️ place them a little higher than others, that my friend is not of our own making, so quit your hatred. Romans 2:11
South african History doesn't start with apartheid. Remember, apartheid lasted less than 50 years. Coloured people(khoi and Malay slaves) were the first people in south africa who were negatively affected by colonialism, this was way before Europeans even came into contact with 'bantu' people in south africa. 'coloured people' were enslaved for 100 years before Europeans made contact with 'bantu people'. One of the problems we have in south africa is that most of our history has been suppressed or forgotten. 'black' south Africans seem to think they were the only victims of apartheid. Yes, coloured people were treated slightly better than black people under apartheid, that doesn't mean that we didn't suffer. Why don't you ever talk about Indians who were treated better than coloureds and blacks? I think you have something against coloureds.
That was a tactic to keep people divided so they could stay in power. All of you guys were victims of colonialism and slavery
@@typing...4881 Bantu want to govern by them selfs and was give land for that,colour people was not given a Stan for them,
Yes I too am proud to be coloured but why portray all couloured as gangsters and rappers.Pls show the world who the decent and cultured couloureds really are too.proud to be S.African.
So if you’re a rapper you’re not decent?
I agree , I'm so tired of coloureds being portrayed as a bunch of good for nothing, uneducated , gangster thugs.
& they didn't portray all coloureds as rappers : gangsters.. she mentioned that we made sport, entertainment & political contributions.
Think U need watch da video again haha
Don't want to be called Black but can take Black culture like rap and if you never read "The Willie Lynch letter I am posting it in the comments about how the white people divided us by giving the lighter skinned Blacks ( that they raped their mothers ) more privileges than the darker Blacks. I am disgusted that anywhere on Earth there are still people so proud to be what they used to call all Black people in Amerikkka ( colored) we rejected that in the 1960's with " I am Black and I'm Proud " and Black Power. So sad to see they can end Apartheid but can't take away the Apartheid mentality. GOD willing Julius Malema will bring you to your senses. There is no such race as colored, come to Amerikkka and parts of Europe and they will see you as the N-words.
@@aubreeriley818 As black American I totally understand ursulavanleeve. Rap is one part of youth culture but people overly place that rap dynamic on an entire culture when the parents wouldn't even identify with that. Show the foods, dances, folklore etc don't put some kids throwing up gang signs as someone's entire culture that's ignorant especially when most rappers are talking about drugs and sex. That's not how you dignify your people.
Coloureds are an ethnic group, and isn't based on skin tone, just because Trevor Noah and Sho Majozi are mixed doesn't mean they are Coloured, they identify as Black..Trevor will most like say he is Xhosa because he grew up in that culture...
Actually Trevor identified as
BI-RACIAL , he rightfully acknowledges his white ancestry . I don't get why black Bantu south Africans want to force coloured people to call themselves black !🤔☹️
Thank you, coloureds are an ethnic group, Trevor Noah is a bloody fool.
Coloureds same as the Afrikaans have a great sense of humour.
Trevor Noah isn’t colored
Trevor Noah can be who he WANTS TO BE. If his SWISS father had married his Mum he would also be here in Switzerland like so many other Swiss coloured children like my sons.
Hayi! Seriously :Half Swiss, half Xhosa is not black.
You Didn't mention Wayde Van Niekerk , he is a coloured
They also forgot Youngsta CPT
Meantime Zola Budd is counted as a Coloured...
They don't really know who the so called Coulered is. Before this, known as Khoi Khoi, it was not even their real name. Know Khoi was just a referring to who they really was. Best kept secret by only those who really knows
I’m coloured and moved overseas. I never say I’m black because black South African culture is so different to how I grew up. But saying I’m coloured means I have to explain it over and over. Now I just say I’m mixed and that my ancestry is from all over the world.
I was overseas same thing to ppl not from here its almost impossible for them to grasp😅
Better that way
Here after Tyla controversy!
all these k@k comments about us coloured people pls do your research about us ,one thing to clear what people get wrong about the coloured people of south africa is that its more then just about the colour of your skin its more of a culture then the colour of your skin infect we have all types of coloured people we have coloured people that can pass as just black and we have light skin coloureds that can pass as white and we have coloured people like the cape malay coloured and most of them are muslim and there is a difference between a mixed person which is the first mixed person in a family and a coloured which is a multiracial ethnic group and the term coloured was forced upon our ancestors and we embraced and i am proud to say i am a south african coloured "'awe mase kind''
Tell em. They trying to project their cultural frame on South Africa, when we clearly an exception.
Well no different to other mixed people from the Americas.
That's why so many of you African Americans are fighting about Colorism
@@janomesteve3129 You realise colourism is throughout the Americas and Asia? It's more prevalent in India where the people with darker skin are placed at the bottom of the caste system. They use to call them untouchables. I'm not sure if this is still the case. All these issues were instigated by Europeans, unfortunately the people this was directed at have internalised it.
@@icilmaa its kinda different,as my great grandparents were already coloured,mots mixed in the usa come from either white or black parents,or asian and white ect as for us my parents are coloured so was my grandparents and there parents and so on we been mixed for generations.
What you left out is that under apartheid we not deemed to white enough, and now under ANC we are not deemed to be black enough, therefore the racist discrimination continue. Have the new racist employment laws? Yea, that one.
And what you don't seem to know is that BEE (black economic empowerment) actually includes all races that were oppressed under apartheid, indians ( e.g Guptas) including chinese. You probably don't know your politics as usual. You still want to follow your master after why not because they classed as second class citizens while blacks were classified as third class citizens so at times your confusion is understandable. Btw both my paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather were 'coloureds' so i don't really have issues with coloureds but they don't seem to care about understanding SA politics. You've just exposed that fact in your comment.
Its seems YOU dont understandstand SA politics.IF it is the case about BEE why is there a race cassification on all goverment application forms.???? In fact on all employment application forms??????@@clementmpushe5957
Funny how Coloreds would die than be associated with Blackness, and then still claim that Blacks do not want to associate with them
The Coloureds have the best sense of humour!
I always find then to be very sweet people, I always find it easy to joke with them and laugh while my Xhosa Sisters would be like ' yehake undiqhelele phi na lona'
I always find then to be very sweet people, I always find it easy to joke with them and laugh while my Xhosa Sisters would be like ' yehake undiqhelele phi na lona'
Exactly, we are fun loving and jolly people
I mean i couldbt help giggle when the rapper featured, ask is you kidneys ready for December Festive😂
Love the coloured people. Couldn't imagine the Western Cape without them.
I get along with Coloureds better than my own or any other race 😅
my bru 💛
They are not full - blooded Africans
Its not just a colour it's a culture too.
We are all the colours therefore it's all about the culture.
@justjoey6939
But it's your country and in your country your culture suffices. In the U.S. our Black American Culture suffices. We really don't care what you call yourselves in your country. Leave us out of your equation. We stamped the names of the COLONIZERS OUT and we are not reintroducing that word here for anyone! As long as we treat you with respect that should be all you should be concerned about with Black Americans.
@@adrian100 What color are you ?
What color ? Green,Blue,Red,Orange or purple,what a stupid label, vestiges of apartheid
Is the background track for me,😂😂😂 brother got barrs awe.
😂 awe...
I'm a Cape Malay Coloured. Although for others in the world the term "Coloured" might be derogatory, but we turned that "oppressive" term into our identity and culture, to show that we are so much more than that term. I always hear people say we just want to be white and speak the "white man's language Afrikaans". Firstly my reason for identifying myself as Coloured is the fact that I honoured both my African Khoisan, South Asian as well as my South East Asian heritage because they all went through a lot for me to be here. Secondly Afrikaans was never the "White man's language" the language was created by the Khoisan and Asian slaves(South East Asia and South Asia), because they were forced to speak Dutch but refuse to and created this with some of their language words incorporated into it such as Piesang(which means Banana) and Sosatie(which means Kebab) both Malay words in Afrikaans and words like eina(which means ouch) and gogga(which means insect) coming from the Nama languages of the Khoi and San people. The colonizers just perfected the language because they were more literate. Hence why mostly White and Coloured South African 🇿🇦 speak the language. It's like a "creole based Dutch". So for me by saying you black and is actually mixed. You actually throwing your other half of whatever you mixed with in the bin. If I travel to the US for example and is classified as "Black Only" that would be fine by me because that is their country's policies, but I would always be coloured by ethnicity✌️
daar stem ek my ma se ma My ouma was ok kleuring soos ek verstaan Ja ons is n groot mengsels Ek blonde hare blou oe praat Afrikaans Maar soos ek dinge verstaan ons taal wat ons praat Was verander daai tyd sodat die ander nasies met oorlog tyd nie kon verstaan nie Jip ek stem Maar as wit persoon Glo my ek verstaan als ❤
@@angieharvett5591 Ja die taal was so bietjie verander, maar baie "swart" Suid Afrikaners is onder die indruk dat die taal(Afrikaans) net aan "wit" Suid Afrikaners behoort maar weet nie dat die Malays and Khoi en San mense ook ñ bydra daar in het nie. Soos ek verstaan van my ouers af. My Pa se kant is ñ mengsel van Indonesië(Malay en eiland van Java), Oos Africa and maklik Arabies. My Ma se kant, my Ouma was ñ platterlandse meisie met ñ mengsel van Nederlands en Khoisan(Afrika) blood, waar my Oupa(ñ stads man) weer ñ mengsel van Malay and Indiese afkomstig is. Baie in my family kan slaag as net wit, asië en swart. So die gemengsel in baie groot 🙂
You know how much I wanted to marry a Cape colored. I think coloureds are the most beautiful people is SA.
You know how much I wanted to marry a Cape colored girl. I think coloureds are the most beautiful people is SA.
@@lukholomacala9145 Thanks man. I appreciate that. You need to travel to Cape Town ma man and get you a lovely coloured lady. One of my Xhosa friends was dating a coloured girl in my High School years, they were a very popular couple on the school, because they looked so well together 👌. I nearly tired the knot with a beautiful Xhosa girl, but her family was very traditional and wanted her to marry someone in there culture. I understood her parents point of view and we broke up and remain friends to this day 😉👍🫂
Proud to have coloured people in my family ❤
Proud to Afrikaaners in my Family... I keep telling them it translates to African. and they blush
Afrikaans are not red- blooded Africans,quit lying
Afrikaans translates to what? Afrikaaner trnslates to what? you speak Afrikaans naaier? nee so hou jou beck ma se poes@@EmmanuelBediako-yg8ne
So proud to be Coloured🗺️👏👍
In the end it all comes down to the character of a person , good or bad .
Sure, the rest is only a skin color, so whats the difference what color you are. Roy b Cape town, south africa 🇿🇦
COLOUREDS =the most beautified people of the world
Ja they just showing the ugly ones
So this video is being used in case about Cape Coloured in particular. TREVOR NOAH is not a Coloured in a South African or Genetic sense. Plus, early in his career, I witnessed him expressing his feelings about being mistaken for one in 2003. I refer to the incident in a court case
Trevor Noah doesn't regard himself as Coloured. He's a direct black/white split which is different.
I can regard myself as a dog but im human 😂😂 point is his coloured.
Direct black white split is not even a thing 😂😂
Apartheid law labelled all mixed people COLOURED. You're not special
@dairealtalkmetmoux6575 No he is not coloured, he is mixed race, a direct off spring of a black and white person, same like in my family
@@Marysmmiiith Most white Europeans have no idea that "Coloureds" in South (and Southern) Africa denotes a new racial subcategory of people who have emerged over the last 4 centuries and are a mix of black, khoisan, Indian, Malaysian and white in varying degrees. My wife is Cape Coloured whereas as I'm white Afrikaner.
Waggou. Sho Madjozi nd Trevor Noah being coloured?? You might wanna check in w them on that
Africa is everything😍
Do you believe that orange Africans exists. We have proof of the existence of orange Africans on this channel
Africa is a continent not a country. SA is the indigenous homeland of the Khoi and San people , not the black Bantu .
@@yardhe7290 😂 😂i bet that's you will say about lesotho for sure....
@@heralds5662 what are u trying to say ?
@@yardhe7290 The Koi and San are black.
It's coloured who are not black.
Correction:
Just because you are mixed race, does not mean you are Coloured.
Trevor Noah is NOT Coloured.
Trevor is definitely coloured !
@@yardhe7290 that's a different coloured. He's not cape coloured.
@@jasonvoorhees6152 I agree , I think Trevor meant to say he's not Cape coloured . According to the law of the land , all mixed race people are termed COLOURED .
Yardhe in the South African context he is NOT coloured.
In the Apartheid era, Trevor Noah would have likely been classified Coloured, but because a non-native in-colony culture & Dutch (Afrikaans) linguistics became the basis of the Coloured label, a person who is of mixed race today would not likely define themselves as coloured if not part of the generally Afrikaans (Dutch) -speaking culture.
whats the sound track called💯💯💯💯💯💯
They are an attractive people that's for sure(women, talking about the women😊) and I actually studied with a young lady from sa as an undergraduate. From what I hear she's doing quite well bless her heart. Very very nice. Please keep coming out with more vlogs!!
Do you believe that orange Africans exists. We have proof of the existence of orange Africans on this channel
With that name, you are either a male that's Black American or Afro-British with the default acquiescence to Mixed women. How commonly typical!
The men are attractive too
@@idontgiveafaboutyou I guess, I love the women, especially after baring witness to them during my first visit.
Coloureds of South Africa are like the Mestizos of Latin America. Their physical appearance, cultural practices and languages are mix of various influences whether its indigenous, colonial or from immigrant groups.
They’re more like African Americans….
Thats what we are 😂 we are a mix of european and native admixture
As a Meztizo (Half Spanish half indigenous from Joaca) Los Angeles, we do not resemble the colored people of SA.
@@EdwardSeeto i was not referring to the physical appearance. i was referring to the similarities on how the mestizo and coloureds came about.
Gotcha Chris.We look more like Hawaiians with our fair/olive skin ,light eyes wavy hair,it's why I hang out on the big island.That and the blue water fishing!
Can someone please explain the reference to Zola Budd @4:27?!!
British White ancestry
This kind of admixture is going on in every corner of the world . With easier communication , travel etc. this mixing of races is bound to happen . In the not too distant future , a sizable and growing group will emerge , in every part of the world , whose identities may not be pinned down to a particular racial group. I , first went to South Africa (Durban) in 1969 , when I was 22 . We were briefed on the groupings and the mechanics of apartheid , to avoid getting into trouble. However I did sneak a photograph ,now faded , seated on a bench labeled " For Europeans Only " at a park in Durban with Gen. Smuts, statue , back turned to me . I guess , he just looked the other way.
Wow! This is why I love speaking to elder people. So wise, intellectual, worldly, and open minded. Those experiences may not be good, but are priceless. Thanks for sharing 🥰
please do not make my culture just another one. I am cape coloured not coloured, and yes there are mixed races in the world but usually black mixed with white.. there is nothing like us anywhere else. it is enough these black people keep us down just like the white man did please do not go around making us even more irrelevant.
We are the nomadic people of Cape Town yet we being pushed out or they are trying to push us out just because they feel that we had an easier time than them in apartheid when I had family members stand with them, my family was put out of District six . So please I get you were in Durban but Durban was predominantly Indian that time two different cultures.. now there is not even Indians in Durban almost anymore because it has been taken over.
We are sick and tired of not being seen #Proudcoloured
I don't see this as positive, why would you want to abandon your culture for mediocrity?
I’m Puerto Rican and my ancestral genetic mix is native taino African and European. We come in all colors and textures across the scale
I'm a colored person and I like watching videos about South Africa even though I live here. I've had this idea for a long time that I would like to make UA-cam videos about the issues that affect coloured people. Many videos are about the American perspective and mixed race people who are half-half. I see the black pride, but I've always wondered where is the coloured pride?
More COLOUREDS need to trace their ancestral roots .
So many don't realise they are direct descendants of the FIRST NATION people .
The United Nations has recognised and affirmed the Khoi/San as the only true indigenous people of SA .
Thus the black Bantu Nguni tribes are all mere migrants in the land of the Khoi and San .
The FIRST NATION and their descendants are the sole custodians of the land , this places the many so called coloureds above and ahead of the black Bantu imposters , who's indigenous homeland is north of the Limpopo river , up to the Congo !
Yes, please make a genuine SA video, we need them & see if you can get your family tree on it, there was so much toesmeerdery here in SA.
@@GodsWillShallBeDone-xt5id what's with this obsession of trying to make everybody black ??? Why ?
Concerning Mandela , it's interesting to note , that he very likely had Dutch blood !
@@yardhe7290and being mixed as you are, you are furthest from being a native in our soil. You know well that your ancestors is made up of malasian , asian and indians who came as slaves as well as european who cane in ships . so dont get ahead of yourself. You are way more foreign than the "bantu" people you speak of who are more related to the khoisan than you will ever be. Go get your land from outside the soil of africa if you will
I love how its the non-coloreds that are arguing in the comment section.
Some mixed people dont go by colored but choose to go by black and their tribe name. Not all biracial people in South Africa automatically identify as colored. My cousins are biracial and identify as black and Zulu
Good, that name needs to be banished.
@icilmaa I don't think they want to do that.
I think that comes down to social circumstance, I do identify as coloured but I feel like circumstantial because where I'm from there are people with darker skin then me, some of them are of African decent, some are from Indian and evens Indonesian decent but they are identify as coloured, our country is so diverse and that's what makes it so great, coloured is a proudly South African product🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
@@racerray3693 Coloured was created by Europeans as a label and category. What gives them the right and power to tell people how they should be identified?
Who cares bra, that happened, it's done, who in the world isn't feeling the effects of European Colonisation, are you gonna hold the crimes against humanity at that time against the victims then you should you should hold yourself accountable as well🤷🤷🤷
a stranger asked if i was from south africa (i’m a black american) and now i’m understanding why. i look like a lot of these people and a lot of them i would also consider to be black. it’s very odd to me but i am learning
Blue vein society
My parents are from the Caribbean and was asked if I was Fijan. You're always going to find someone who looks similar.
Thats the thing many African americans and us folks in the caribbean would be coloured in south Africa if not all.
@@christopherross727 That's what white people use to call us.
@@christopherross727 as a coloured you probably right we do share alot of things with the african american folks culture wise the negative and positive.
The beautiful and mazing community and people that added another shade to my life. I am so grateful!
Interesting, I enjoyed the video. Except, Zola Budd has never been seen as coloured!
The rap song sounds interesting...
And they've got very beautiful people
Why did you only mention the Mt-DNA (maternal line/lineage) of the Cape Coloureds of South Africa and not mention the Y-DNA (Paternal lines/lineages) of them?
IIRC, the Y-DNA lineages of the Cape Coloureds are mainly a mix of European (mainly Dutch) and SSA (mainly Bantu with some West African and Khoisan). There's also a little South and Southeast Asian Y-DNA within them too.
I think it's because mitochondrial DNA can only test the maternal line.
.the cape coloured is mainly dutch n Khoisan not mainly Bantu their literally double more Khoisan DNA than Bantu get your facts right 😑
@@GEORGIESTARBOY True, bantu and European were not compatible. Europeans were seen as enemies from the inception of colonialism.
What revisionism.
Coloureds African ancestry, where they have any, is a blend of agro-pastoralist, pastoralist & hunter-gatherer just as all black South Africans have.
But Coloureds are also Asian and Caucasian.
Some have no native African ancestry at all.
Agro-pastoralist culture adopted the Bantu-speaking lingistics (really a hybrid linguistics in SA context, hence clicks) but are genetically a blend of agro-pastoralist, pastoralist and hunter gatherer.
These are all among Coloured ancestry.
The Dutch East India (VOC) was a Dutch company but many of their employees and settlers were not Dutch. They were from several European countries. That's probably why white Afrikaans South Africans neither look nor sound Dutch, and many don't have Dutch surnames.
Sarah Langa (the lady in the thumb nail) is not Coloured. She is Zulu with a White mother. Langa is the Nguni surname.
Her mother is the black one and white father. You can search it up.
@@asiphejohnson6543 Alright. Thank u. I do note she previously went by the surname McKay.
Amazing , she probably changed her surname for advantage under this post apartheid era , claiming to be black , how convenient !
The Coloured community in the Western Cape is a diverse group of people with multicultural roots, including indigenous African, European, Asian, and Southeast Asian ancestries. The term "Coloured" refers to individuals who are of mixed ethnic origin and is a socially and politically complex issue in South Africa.
The Western Cape province has the highest percentage of Coloured people in South Africa, making up approximately 50% of the population. The community has a rich cultural heritage, with influences from various civilizations, such as the Khoisan, Dutch, Malay, and other African tribes.
In recent years, the Coloured community has faced challenges, such as high levels of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. The SA Genome Project 2021 aims to address some of these challenges by providing genetic research and data to improve healthcare and social policies for all South Africans, including the Coloured community.
The cape coloured community was largely formed around the Khoi tribe , and to a lesser extent the San . Inter marrying with the black Bantu Nguni tribes was very rare .
You are confusing mixed race with being coloured. Being coloured goes deeper than just being of mixed race, it's also about culture too and so some of the people you mentioned here, like Trevor Noah, Sho Madjozi and Amanda du Pont, much as they are of mixed race background, they do not identify as coloured. Do further research next time.
Can I identify as white hence..... coloured."BLACK" is just a political term. Trevor Noah is biracial not coloured.
Trevor Noah, Amanda Dupont and Sho Majozi are not classified as colored in the home affairs registry, for Amanda its even worse because she is born in Swaziland l, there is nothing like 'coloured' in Swaziland
We all suffered under the same government let's not forget those who fought for our freedom regardless of colour
😅the music .awweee my bru.👍
Thank you for the information. We are such great variety of Melanated people.
Do you believe that orange Africans exists. We have proof of the existence of orange Africans on this channel
This channel is propaganda
The khoi people and San people mixed with Bantu people before the "settlers"
Mandela had a Griqua / coloured grandmother , does that make him coloured ?
@yardhe7290 no Mandela is Australian wtf😂
This is 1 mixed race culture(respect). In Namibia there is another 1. A smaller group called Baster, derived from the English word bastard. They moved from De Tuin in the Western Cape in the late 1870's and bought farmland from the Nama people( sub tribe of the San formerly Bushmen). They called their new home Rehoboth. We are farmers and builders by trade.
Can you link the song, or atleast tell what the name of it is?
As a South African man, I can tell you that a lot Coloured girls are very attractive! It's like they get the best of all worlds.
😆Incest was never best.😆
@@humanbeing3777what?😂
I can't disagree. They are cute.
I always thought that people of India were referred to as Coulered in SA. This video describes them more so as Creole.
They are called Indian in SA
SA has race groups black white coloured Indian asian
@@Chalkls Not Asian don't lie
@@lindokuhle80 what are you talking about. You have clearly not filled in forms where the options for race come up. What do you think Chinese , Indonesians etc are called here
Wow! I'm stunned to learn that the word " Colored" has a specific meaning of the ethnicity of these beautiful race of people. I've learned something new today. Love from this African American from the states. I hope to visit Cape Town soon.❤
Thank you for being so accepting and kind with your words. As a Cape Coloured I see a lot of similarities and contrast to the AA community and it scares and excited me at the same time.
@@adrian100 You're welcome brother. I've always been interested in South African history and culture. I'm planning on visiting soon. I'd also have to find a guide. May I ask, what makes you feel scared about African Americans?
“Beautiful” lmfao
We love African Americans long time.
I see south africa cricketers and the audience in the stadium when there match is held. They are all of different colours supporting SA, so I always have wondered the reason.❤
Uhm but if you want to be really technical.
Trevor Noah isnt coloured, he's mixed race.
The separation between white and coloured did not happen immediately as this video suggests. No white Afrikaner is pure white. The first Dutch settlers mostly came without their women and married Khoisan. It was the French Huguenots running away from religious persecution who were the first to come with all their women and also with a strict version of the Calvinist religion. Why apartheid was so stupid is that many families have members in more than one racial category. Some even in 3! The Coloured Xhosa have not been mentioned here either. Of mixed race they speak Xhosa as a first language and Afrikaans as a second language. The real situation is even more complex than this video makes out. I will not bore people with the complexities within my own family. Long Live South Africa! Long Live Africa!
This isn't about the Afrikaner, though. The world treats them (you?) as white, the system treats them (you? )as white so that's what they (you?) are, regardless of a miniscule percentage of KhoiSan DNA. I'm sick of whites forever inserting themselves (yourselves?) into the conversation whenever we talk about Coloureds.
Coloureds are MULTI-racial people. They ALSO have South Asian and Southeast-Asian ancestry, especially Coloured people from the Western Cape.
@DayLin_Poetics_
They used your music video for this video 😅 Reg vi die festive
FYI, Trevor Noah's mum is Xhosa (blk South African) and his dad is European, no Khoi or San there, correct me if I'm wrong.
Trevor is not coloured
Can you please tell me what this song's name is and who the artists are?
KRO Barz is one artist from the beginning
Zola Budd is distinctly NOT Coloured. She is an Afrikaner, a white Afrikaans-speaking South African.
coloureds are a mixed group not black just like melungeons ,Cajuns ,Louisiana creoles ,brass ankles ,the Métis .
I see there are so much videos of foreigners in my cape town and saying how beautiful it is , yet none of them has one coloured in it , just black people . what pisses me off and I do not know if my fellow CAPE COLOURED PEOPLE feel the same , but we are the original people of Cape Town , yet on these videos the black people says we have to learn their language cause this is their country ?????? When are we going to get the respect ? no they should learn ours , we get taught their language in schools they do not teach our mengels ? We are being pushed out of our own city where must we go? we were born and bred here, they want our city cause they know our city brings in the tourism and can be run apart from South Africa , I hate that our kids have to resort to gangsterism because they have a stigma put on them, and do not get jobs other than low paying ones , they give blacks and foreigners the jobs instead..
I truly Hope that one day we will become our own country cause this sh*t is getting out of hand now.
also this video is not telling the right story , if you going to speak about my people do it properly!!
there is a difference between coloured and cape coloured!!!!!!
I LOVE MY DAMN PEOPLE AND MY CULTURE EN ONS WIET HULLE KRY A KAK VIR ONS EVEN WITH OUR STRUGGLES WE ARE A GREAT PEOPLE! KYK WAT DOEN HULLE MEN OSSE KLOPSE? THAT WAS OUR HERITAGE AND CULTURE AND WHAT THE BLACK MAN DO? TRY AND INSERT THEMSELVES IN IT AND NOW IT IS LITERALLY A NON EVENT! EK IS JAS VIR DAAI KAK CAUSE THAT WAS OURS!
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100% correct bru 👍👍👍
The black Bantu Nguni invaders from central Africa are poison !!!!!
Cry
ekse whats the name of that opening track? that track moer 🔥
Coloureds of South Africa are like "Pardos" of Brazil.
The group @2:41 who are they; Is it spelled Gree-kwah? Also, so many of the people in the video look just like African-Americans, but the culture and heritage is obviously different. It's Interesting.
Trevor Noah is not from the community you describe, his mother was Black, his father is from Europe and they had an illegal child, he was raised in the black community during apartheid and they had to hide him at all times. Read his book, it's marvelous, it is literally called "born a crime" lol. Any who I'm Canadian, but, this is basically my genetic make up described in the video, my family passed easily for white and has for generations, we just don't show anyone our palms back in the day, total give away with wider pigmented palmer lines.
Correct, Trevor noah is part Xhosa and Swiss if I'm not mistaken. He's not Coloured just mixed
In South Africa he would be categorized as coloured. All mixed persons in South Africa are lumped up under Coloured. Not Culturally though.
@@HisFinEco coloured are mixed foo
@@africaine4889 Yes, they are mixed but not all are visibly mixed. such as Benni McCarthy, also from cape town but looks like a typical "black" African. It is the same when referring to black Americans, Some have light-colored eyes, and straight hair, and 95% of all black Americans have at least 15-20% European ancestry. Therefore they are technically "mixed" but they are just called "black" for example Barack Obama. Being coloured is more of a culture in South Africa. Many mixed people in South Africa are not coloureds culturally, like Trevor Noah, he is more Xhosa than anything.
@@AfroArtistaFilmsYes, he would be called coloured at first glance but at further inspection, they would differentiate between him and a coloured person. Even he has spoken about people confusing him for a coloured person. Coloureds are mixed but not all are visibly mixed. such as Benni McCarthy, also from cape town but looks like a typical "black" African. It is the same when referring to black Americans, Some have light-coloured eyes, and straight hair, and 95% of all black Americans have at least 15-20% European ancestry. Therefore they are technically "mixed" but they are just called "black" for example Barack Obama. Being coloured is more of a culture in South Africa. Many mixed people in South Africa are not coloureds culturally, like Trevor Noah, he is more Xhosa than anything.
What the Hell, when did Zola Bud become a coloured?
Being colored of clora of what ever you want to call me is a culture, a history, generations of ancestors, roots in many tribes across the world with a deep sense of who we are, where we come from and the ability to endure. Bryan Vermeulen Ceres Western. Cape. Cape Colored
I always wanted to do a DNA test to see what else is mixed in with what I already know of: Grieqwua (khoi san and Dutch or German) Madagascar, India/Pakistan, Britain and Africa. How much of each I don't know. I guess you can say I am an African of many races.
It seems, though, that whatever their racial components, the Coloured are much closer culturally to their European ancestors, in terms of religion, language, etcetera. I think it was just the policy of apartheid that made them into a separate group.
@emiliam.7441 Not so. You might be ignorant to the fact that there are a lot of overlap with African tribal culture too. From food to how families and community are cohesive. Language is different. Originally Afrikaans originated from Coloured slaves in the Cape. It is a mixture of their own Khoisan ancestors and that of their masters. Originally called "Die Kombuuis Taal" translated to The Kitchen Language because the people who spoke it were the slaves serving them. They were also the Dutch owners child minders and it was their way of conversing with those kids. This is how Afrikaans came to be. In Natal most Coloured people speak both Zulu and English fluently from their ancestors except for the native tongues of their Indian ancestors. I can attest to the fact that White culture was more foreign to me than African culture. It was always easier to make friends with Black South Africans than White. This can be attributed to the dissimilarity with White culture. Even down accents.
I don't speak Afrikaans, but how similar is it from Dutch (if you know Dutch)?@@yolandesolomons7611
This is what I found in a book called The Ethnic Phenomenon: "The Coloureds are... linguistically, culturally and religiously almost completely Europeanized. Except for a small minority of Muslim 'Cape Malays,' South African Coloureds are, but for skin pigmentation, poverty and stigmatization, virtually undistinguishable from South African 'whites.'" Perhaps the Coloureds are like Latin American mestizos and mulattoes, who culturally are almost entirely European.
@emiliam.7441 So, some white sociologist gave an opinion based on what quantitative research? I have lived experience as a Coloured person myself! Ask my Welsh sister in law and her family why it was hard for her to fit in. So much she had to have coulciling to settle into a Coloured culture, which was foreign to her own. Her efforts are appreciated because it shows regard. Whatever your opinion is not important or relevant to me as a Coloured person, the fact remains that is merely what it is, an opinion formed from books.
I love coloured people. I used to live with them in Cape Town. Very friendly and always laughing, but kinda nonsense people.
Lol some are no nonsense yes
Never knew Zola Budd is cloured. Something new here. Can someone explain ? . Roy b ,CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦
Many forget that the Coloureds are genetically intergenerationally mixed people. Their biology makes them who they are followed by their Cape Creole culture
Glad I ran into this video. As a Black African born and raised in the United States, now residing in South Africa since 2016; I was always confused and curious with the term, coloured.
I'm just as confused with the term Black and White 🥴as far as I know, you cannot describe or label human beings according these terminology or profile... it's stupid and confusing to say the least 🤔
@@basheerwilliams4895 On point. People want to strip their moer when you say Coloured but White and Black is ok. 🤔
Are you saying you're confused about the term black and white in South Africa?... because you do know they use that too along with coloured 🥴
Exactly@@Mimeniia
Dankie, ons is ook vir jou Suid-Afrika
2:37 The other coloured subgroup are the Basters of Namibia
Video: the most
Latin America: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!?!?
100% the best funnies group of people. LOVE THEM!! There are rhe kindest people also.
The most creative cursing and insults you will ever hear in your life. '
Who is the women in the pic holding her neck
so I dont know why cape coloureds should be represented by a notorious gangster, the thumbnail sucks
Zola Bud is not colored....correct me if I'm wrong.
She was.
Soundtrack asseblief man....! 🔥🙏🏾
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During Apartheid,for economic privileges,we weren't white enough,now we're not black enough under a black government (ANC)
What song is being played?
Such beautiful people ! ❤
Since when was Zola Budd coloured?
Eh! Since when?
The San people are also the only original inhabitants of Southern Africa
Not true , the KHOI together with the San are the only true indigenous people of SA . It's all the black Bantu Nguni tribes that are not indigenous to SA .
@@Yardhe ok the Khoi and the San
@@Yardhe thers like 13 other tribes that got killed off or fled then the khoi n san joined i went into my history n found out im korana
A few in inaccuracies and an incomplete video/narration. I wonder how Zola Budd feels about suddenly being identified as coloured? That gave me a bit of a giggle.
Awe....very proudly Cape Coloured..
1. **Colored**: In the South African context, "colored" historically referred to people of mixed race ancestry, usually of Khoisan, African, European, and/or Asian descent. This term was used during the apartheid era to categorize individuals who did not fit into the strict racial categories of "White" or "Black."
2. **Cape Colored**: This specifically refers to people of mixed-race descent in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The term "Cape Colored" emerged during the colonial and apartheid periods and denotes a distinct cultural and ethnic group within South Africa. Cape Colored people have a unique cultural identity shaped by their mixed heritage and historical experiences in the Western Cape.
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So why we such outcast lmao why all the fuss American more clued up with aliens than us hey just sad thou iu guy's need send sumone yit best scientist's to cum study us lol sure the alien s has mixed sum Pitbull DNA or sum shit in ours hey
Basically in Apartheid South Africa it was West European Whites at top, followed by Coloureds, then South East Asians, Then Desis, Then Khois, Then Sans, Then Bantus at the very bottom yeah.
Afikaans is a Creole language that evolved under 19th century colonialism. It's a "new" language that didn't exist before 1800's.
Travor noah is not colored. He is biracial. big difference
Seriously we don't care...get a grip.
You didn't mention the cars🤣🤣where's the neat cars🤠
As a person who grew up in Eldorado Park, this is a really kak video with a lot of misrepresentation and conjecture. It is very myopic in the views expressed and misses the vastness of coloured life, culture and heritage and all the shades and influences in between. Julle kan sommer sien ek was in die Engelse klas, ne!? 😂🙈😭 Awee! Have a great day. Shap, shap👍
What's the name of the songs in this, video?
Cape Town is the best and the Coloureds are such cool people - love the humour and the zest for life
That's how we roll, Cecily, we are just cool, with good humours
Beautiful People. Beautiful Women They Got.
Please Who Is The Artist? And The Track? I Love It Even Though I Don't Understand A Thing, I Just Love The Flow And Rhythm.
Trevor Noah is not coloured. He is mixed race. Big difference.
“Is jou kidneys reg vir die festive?" 😂🙌🏾