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  • The term Coloured is used to refer to several groups of people including descendants of those who originally lived in the areas in the Cape where Europeans first settled and most people whose descent is traced from members of more than one 'population group', as well as descendants of Malay slaves brought in the early days of the Cape

    Tiumph's Tables, Preview and Abbreviations 1985

  • What we usually refer to as the Coloured and Indian question has to do with the expression of fears of the working class (including the unemployed) among these communities.

    Editorial 2001

  • What we usually refer to as the Coloured and Indian question has to do with the expression of fears of the working class (including the unemployed) among these communities.

    Background Documents 2000

  • What we usually refer to as the Coloured and Indian question has to do with the expression of fears of the working class (including the unemployed) among these communities.

    NATION-FORMATION AND NATION BUILDING 1997

  • The image of the happy Cape Coloured is imprinted in people’s minds and they’re reluctant to let go of it.

    Not all coloureds speak like dis « Digital immigrant 2009

  • This story, as Jordaan tells it, begins when, aged 16 and classified as a Coloured, he was exposed to apartheid's brutality in Port Elizabeth.

    'This is going to be the best World Cup we've ever seen' 2010

  • I find your comments on the intercultural idiosyncracies of txtng fascinating: my v tiny sample comprises two so called Coloured girls; three black girls and one white, Afrikaans mother tongue girl, all being taught in English.

    On discovering Shakespeare DC 2008

  • Former chairman Ebrahim Rasool's so-called Coloured grouping had complained that some of the voting results were rigged.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • This follows complaints from the so-called Coloured grouping led by the former chairperson, Ebrahim Rasool, that some of the voting results were rigged.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • A remix project from Souns, titled Coloured Lights, is said to be due out through Kikapu early next year.

    Disquiet » Color-Coded MP3 Album 2004

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