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−	The term [[coloured]], as applied to people, is a blanket term developed under colonial rule (alongside the earlier and even more denigrating and technically incorrect [[Hotnot]] (i.e. a contraction of “[[Hottentot]]”, a reference to the [[Khoekhoe]] hunter-gatherer tribes~~) and~~ later fixed by [[Apartheid]] classification to refer both to people of [[Khoekhoe]] and [[San]] descent ~~ads~~ well as all those of mixed-race ([[European]]/[[Non-European]] or [[white]]/[[non-white]]) descent – i.e. what in other parts of the world was often referred to as [[mulatto]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto].	+	The term [[coloured]], as applied to people, is a blanket term developed under colonial rule (alongside the earlier and even more denigrating and technically incorrect [[Hotnot]] - i.e. a contraction of “[[Hottentot]]”, and a reference to the [[Khoekhoe]] hunter-gatherer tribes. This was later fixed by [[Apartheid]] classification to refer both to people of [[Khoekhoe]] and [[San]] descent as well as all those of mixed-race ([[European]]/[[Non-European]] or [[white]]/[[non-white]]) descent – i.e. what in other parts of the world was often referred to as [[mulatto]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto].

	(Often also referred to as “[[Cape coloured]]” since the majority of those classified so by the [[apartheid]] system lived in the Western Cape region.)		(Often also referred to as “[[Cape coloured]]” since the majority of those classified so by the [[apartheid]] system lived in the Western Cape region.)

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		+	http://www.sahistory.org.za/people-south-africa/san
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	+	==Sources==

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 For example, in an attempt to make sense of it all, the [[apartheid]] system categorized the so-called "[[coloureds]]" in a number of sub-categories at one time[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto], among them [[Cape Coloured]], [[Cape Malay]], [[Griqua]] and so on.
-Conveniently seen by Verwoerd and his government as a distinctive “race”, despite the  obvious affinity of a large part of that community, particularly the Christian segment of it,  to [[white]] [[Afrikaans]] speaking people in the Western Cape (in terms of social, linguistic, religious and many other indicators) – and the obvious religious differences between the Christian, Muslim and other sections of the community. On this basis all persons classified in this way were disenfranchised in 195* and by the mid 1960’s had been moved (“resettled”) in areas outside their traditional urban suburbs (the notable example of course being District Six in Cape Town.) Later in the “enlightened” period of initial negotiations and the experiments with a Tricameral Parliament (1980’s) this was officially replaced by “[[Bruin mense]]” (= “[[brown people]]”) alongside the terms “[[Black]]” (for anyone of “[[African]]” or "[[Bantu]]" descent, replacing former terms such as  “[[kaffir]]”, “[[bantu]]” "[[non-European]]" or "[[non-white]]") and “[[Asian]]” (for “[[coolie]]” or “[[Indian]]”). As politically correct thinking kicked in during the 1980’s, it became common usage to write it in parenthesis as “so-called [[coloured]]” (and to do so in speaking as well, by using the first two fingers on each hand to signal the parenthesis!).
+Conveniently seen by Verwoerd and his government as a distinctive “race”, despite the  obvious affinity of a large part of that community, particularly the Christian segment of it,  to [[white]] [[Afrikaans]] speaking people in the Western Cape (in terms of social, linguistic, religious and many other indicators) – and the obvious religious differences between the Christian, Muslim and other sections of the community. On this basis all persons classified in this way were disenfranchised in early 1950s and by the mid 1960’s had been moved (“resettled”) in areas outside their traditional urban suburbs (the notable example of course being District Six in Cape Town.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Six]) Later in the “enlightened” period of initial negotiations and the experiments with a Tricameral Parliament (1980’s) this was officially replaced by “[[Bruin mense]]” (= “[[brown people]]”) alongside the terms “[[Black]]” (for anyone of “[[African]]” or "[[Bantu]]" descent, replacing former terms such as  “[[kaffir]]”, “[[bantu]]” "[[non-European]]" or "[[non-white]]") and “[[Asian]]” (for “[[coolie]]” or “[[Indian]]”). As politically correct thinking kicked in during the 1980’s, it became common usage to write it in parenthesis as “so-called [[coloured]]” (and to do so in speaking as well, by using the first two fingers on each hand to signal the parenthesis!).
 After the 1976 uprising the community increasingly shifted to using English as a public language, but in the mid 1980’s another shift occurred, with many intellectuals and writers in [[Afrikaans]] (particularly at the [[University of the Western Cape]] and led by [[Adam Small]], [[Jakes Gerwel]], [[Hein Willemse]], [[Julian Smith]] and others)  reappropriating [[Afrikaans]] for their struggle, but now identifying themselves as “[[black]]”, and linking up with notions taken from the [[Black Consciousness Movement]] (see also '''[[Black]]'''). The effects of this movement were significant in the way the politics and particularly cultural and language politics of the Western Cape developed over the next decade or more.

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 The term was used in much the same indiscriminatory way as [[native]], [[kaffir]] or [[black]] would be used to refer to all and any people of [[African]] or [[Bantu]] descent (except the [[Khoi-San]]), irrespective of their particular cultural/linguistic or ethnic affiliations ([[Zulu]], [[Xhosa]], [[Sotho]], whatever) .
-A complication is of course that because [[coloured]] it is a catch-all name, the community has never been homogenous, containing as it does people from a whole range of origins - from the [[Khoi-San]], the [[Griekwa]],  [[Hindu]] and [[Islamic]] slaves imported from the east, and various other African tribes, as well as the inevitable interracial mix resulting from cross-cultural liaisons of all kinds during the colonial period. For example, in an attempt to make sense of it, the [[apartheid]] system categorized "[[coloureds]]" in a number of sub-categories at one time[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto], among them [[Cape Coloured]], [[Cape Malay]], [[Griqua]] and so on.
+A complication is of course that because [[coloured]] it is a catch-all name, the community has never been homogenous, containing as it does people from a whole range of origins - from the [[Khoi-San]], the [[Griekwa]],  [[Hindu]] and [[Islamic]] slaves imported from the east, and various other African tribes, as well as the inevitable interracial mix resulting from cross-cultural liaisons of all kinds during the [[Dutch]] and [[British]] colonial periods.
 Conveniently seen by Verwoerd and his government as a distinctive “race”, despite the  obvious affinity of a large part of that community, particularly the Christian segment of it,  to [[white]] [[Afrikaans]] speaking people in the Western Cape (in terms of social, linguistic, religious and many other indicators) – and the obvious religious differences between the Christian, Muslim and other sections of the community. On this basis all persons classified in this way were disenfranchised in 195* and by the mid 1960’s had been moved (“resettled”) in areas outside their traditional urban suburbs (the notable example of course being District Six in Cape Town.) Later in the “enlightened” period of initial negotiations and the experiments with a Tricameral Parliament (1980’s) this was officially replaced by “[[Bruin mense]]” (= “[[brown people]]”) alongside the terms “[[Black]]” (for anyone of “[[African]]” or "[[Bantu]]" descent, replacing former terms such as  “[[kaffir]]”, “[[bantu]]” "[[non-European]]" or "[[non-white]]") and “[[Asian]]” (for “[[coolie]]” or “[[Indian]]”). As politically correct thinking kicked in during the 1980’s, it became common usage to write it in parenthesis as “so-called [[coloured]]” (and to do so in speaking as well, by using the first two fingers on each hand to signal the parenthesis!).

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 (Often also referred to as “[[Cape coloured]]” since the majority of those classified so by the [[apartheid]] system lived in the Western Cape region.)
-The term was used in much the same indiscriminatory way as [[native]], [[kaffir]] or [[black]] would be used to refer to all and any people of [[African]] or [[Bantu]] descent (except the [[Xhoi-San]]), irrespective of their particular cultural/linguistic or ethnic affiliations ([[Zulu]], [[Xhosa]], [[Sotho]], whatever) .
+The term was used in much the same indiscriminatory way as [[native]], [[kaffir]] or [[black]] would be used to refer to all and any people of [[African]] or [[Bantu]] descent (except the [[Khoi-San]]), irrespective of their particular cultural/linguistic or ethnic affiliations ([[Zulu]], [[Xhosa]], [[Sotho]], whatever) .
 A complication is of course that because [[coloured]] it is a catch-all name, the community has never been homogenous, containing as it does people from a whole range of origins - from the [[Khoi-San]], the [[Griekwa]],  [[Hindu]] and [[Islamic]] slaves imported from the east, and various other African tribes, as well as the inevitable interracial mix resulting from cross-cultural liaisons of all kinds during the colonial period. For example, in an attempt to make sense of it, the [[apartheid]] system categorized "[[coloureds]]" in a number of sub-categories at one time[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto], among them [[Cape Coloured]], [[Cape Malay]], [[Griqua]] and so on.

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−	The term [[coloured]], as applied to people, is a blanket term developed under colonial rule (alongside the earlier and even more denigrating and technically incorrect [[Hotnot]] (i.e. a contraction of “[[Hottentot]]”) and later fixed by [[Apartheid]] classification to refer both to people of [[~~Xhoi~~]] or [[San]] descent ~~and~~ those of mixed-race ([[European]]/[[Non-European]] or [[white]]/[[non-white]]) descent – i.e. what in other parts of the world was often referred to as [[mulatto]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto].	+	The term [[coloured]], as applied to people, is a blanket term developed under colonial rule (alongside the earlier and even more denigrating and technically incorrect [[Hotnot]] (i.e. a contraction of “[[Hottentot]]”, a reference to the [[Khoekhoe]] hunter-gatherer tribes) and later fixed by [[Apartheid]] classification to refer both to people of [[Khoekhoe]] and [[San]] descent ads well as all those of mixed-race ([[European]]/[[Non-European]] or [[white]]/[[non-white]]) descent – i.e. what in other parts of the world was often referred to as [[mulatto]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto].

	(Often also referred to as “[[Cape coloured]]” since the majority of those classified so by the [[apartheid]] system lived in the Western Cape region.)		(Often also referred to as “[[Cape coloured]]” since the majority of those classified so by the [[apartheid]] system lived in the Western Cape region.)

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−	The term [[coloured]], as applied to people, is a blanket term developed under colonial rule (alongside the earlier and even more denigrating and technically incorrect [[Hotnot]] [= “[[Hottentot]]”]) and later fixed by [[Apartheid]] classification to refer both to people of [[Xhoi]] or [[San]] descent and those of mixed-race ([[European]]/[[Non-European]] or [[white]]/[[non-white]]) descent – i.e. what in other parts of the world was often referred to as [[mulatto]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto].	+	The term [[coloured]], as applied to people, is a blanket term developed under colonial rule (alongside the earlier and even more denigrating and technically incorrect [[Hotnot]] (i.e. a contraction of “[[Hottentot]]”) and later fixed by [[Apartheid]] classification to refer both to people of [[Xhoi]] or [[San]] descent and those of mixed-race ([[European]]/[[Non-European]] or [[white]]/[[non-white]]) descent – i.e. what in other parts of the world was often referred to as [[mulatto]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto].

	(Often also referred to as “[[Cape coloured]]” since the majority of those classified so by the [[apartheid]] system lived in the Western Cape region.)		(Often also referred to as “[[Cape coloured]]” since the majority of those classified so by the [[apartheid]] system lived in the Western Cape region.)