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  • noun Plural form of coloured.

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Examples

  • Under the segregationist policies of the apartheid regime, they were designated "coloureds" - people of mixed race origin - and denied significant political representation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • In Cape Town's Grand Parade, an esplanade outside the old City Hall, a crowd of more 2,000 gathered and their numbers grew as people -- mainly blacks and mixed-race "coloureds" -- poured in from neighbouring townships.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Those that were in economic and political power continued to espouse the view that tuberculosis was rife among Africans and so-called coloureds because of their excessive drinking and poor hygienic habits like reckless spitting.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Sowejoca chairman Basil Douglas said on Thursday marchers would also demand an apology from PWV premier Tokyo Sexwale for reportedly calling coloureds "popcorns" and that they wore "tails andtalons" and made him vomit.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The surveys involved 1100 blacks, 400 whites, 300 so-called coloureds and 200 Indians.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • In a racial breakdown of the population, the census found there were 5068110 whites, 3285718 so-called coloureds,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Those favouring rapid progress towards interim government and constituent assembly elections have expressed concern over loss of voter sympathy, particularly among the Cape's so-called coloureds and Natal's Indian community.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • So-called coloureds and Indians currently received R318 per month, and blacks R293.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Inkatha Frredom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi will be addressing Indians, so-called coloureds and whites at a public meeting in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday as part of his plan to woo support across racial lines.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • He did not expect one per cent of whites to support the ANC, and more than 70 per cent of Indians and so-called coloureds would vote against the ANC.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

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