I am a Cape Coloured, besides the fact that we have the greatest gene pool and are such a diverse people , our culture are so diverse as well. Our people are blessed artistically, athletically and socially we know how to enjoy life. We have the 7th Wonder of the world in Cape Town, namely Table Mountain and when you ever here during the Festive season that's New year you will see how Cape Town coloured live, our celebration of life during this time is the pinnacle of Diversity and we own that as a proud people. We have social economic challenges like most people but we are people of faith also and I am just so proud and lucky being born and raised in the Cape Flats. Thank you for sharing our culture, we are actually the future of humanity with more interracial marriages on the rise but we lack recognition from the SA government with real contributions to protect and enhance what we have become as a people. God bless Cape Town and its people, Thanks once again for a wonderful depiction of our history.
Let's be honest as kallits as long as we eat good and have good music and a gally blik, we be the happiest people on earth. And no shxt on that festive part. We fxcking love December. It really is a celebration of life. In fact, everytime we eat it feels like a celebration. Food plays a major role here.
I am a black South African of Zulu and Xhosa descent, and identify as black. Yet my elder sister is Zulu and white Portuguese but she also identifies as black. This is due to the fact that she was raised by her Zulu(mother) side of the family. Just like Trevor Noah identifies as black. So to sum it up, being coloured is a culture, not all mixed race people are accepted as coloured due to their ethnicity. Being coloured is a very complex and beautiful way of life.
Yes coloureds South Africans can look very different from each other and are a multiracial group of ppl as they are not only 2 races but 3 or more..every coloured should do their dna test.
As a white Capetonian I can honestly say that Cape Town is not Cape Town without the coloured people. They are funny AF, diverse, full of culture, love sport and a really really proud people.
If a settler said my people were 'funny AF' I'd be pissed. Oh n btw, Zulu people were never 'imported' anywhere, they ruled the places they went to. One true thing though, the Dutch men raped those Khoi women and produced these kids, however, the very Khoi people were a mixture of other African people, that's why Sarah Baartman was enslaved for having an 'African' bottom, which the European women tried to imitate for centuries making dresses that gave them the appearance of a 'bum'. I hate how pink people make it their mission to distort history and make shit up.🙄🙌🏿
Im Coloured when I went to New York most people thought I was Latino. In my Family my Grandmother was Indian and my Grandfather was an imigrant from Hong kong. I even have Arabic , Khoi & San family from my dad side,its so funny how many races are mixed into my DNA. Thanks for this review most Americans dont get it.
Kill3rk1 You can pass for Latino, though you may not have any Portuguese or Spanish ancestry. Latinos themselves are mixed with African, European, Indigenous, and Asian ancestry.
Kill3rk1 Latinos are often super mixed people too especially ones from Puerto Rico Dominican republic and Cuba they have high amounts of African and native American and European dna and native dna is close to East Asian dna so I can see why people might confuse you for latino
But Latinos can be white, black or indigenous too. In Peru or Bolivia most Latinos are what in the U.S. now call "Native Americans" while in Argentina and Uruguay most Latinos are "White" (a great part of them with Italian, German and French ancestry, apart from Spanish)
I'm also "Coloured" (Black African and White European ancestry) and people mistake me for Brazilian or North African from time to time. Not really surprising, because many Brazilians, as well as North Africans also have mixed Eurasian-African ancestry.
Mattman Key Not necessaril native american, both my parents are lebanese migrants in Colombia. Im likely a mix of asian, african and southern european. but I dont think native american
Very informative video. I am a Cape Malay Coloured and I've have learned a few things about myself by watching this. Just a few things I could add, Coloureds living in the middle-class suburbs of Cape Town are mostly English speaking and those living in the more impoverished areas are mostly Afrikaans speaking. If you are a Millenial coloured who has been brought up in a middle-class family, your parents are almost certainly Afrikaans speaking who raised you to speak English as your first language. For this reason, our English is not really proper and consists of a moersie lot (a whole lot) of Afrikaans words and slang lol.
Yep ......born in Wynberg born in District 6 😅😅 not in Bellville Coloureds are funny poeple color features and hair texture was a really big issue then came the language 😅😅😅😅😅
06:00 Just need to correct you on that point : Being a bilingual (English and Afrikaans) White South African from Cape Town myself, I can definitely tell you that Afrikaans speaking Whites and Coloureds have absolutely no problem understanding each other, whatsoever. Though they do have a distinct accent and way of talking, so does various regional Afrikaans White people as well, with prominent differences between Northern, Western and Southern White Afrikaans speakers. All easily understood though. There is one absolutely outstanding characteristic of the Coloured people, especially the Cape Malay, you should know about : They are especially known for their sharp wit and supreme sense of humour, lovely people to know ! I would also like to say, from my life experience growing up in Cape Town, I think the Cape Coloured (aside from the Cape Malays) of the Cape Peninsula (including Cape Town and suburbs) are more strongly influenced by Indonesian, Batavian, Javanese origins, while the Coloureds of the areas outside the Cape Peninsula, towards Northern Cape and elsewhere, are more prominently influenced by Khoi origins (but, as with all people, this is just in general, not a fixed fact). Lastly : though it's nowadays the scientific norm to refer to the KhoiSan, these are in fact two very distinct groups -- the Khoi being larger indigenous brown skinned natives of South Africa, originally nomadic livestock farmers, and the San being the Bushmen as they still refer to themselves, and to this day preferring the desert areas. The San did not significantly mix with the Khoi, the Black groups entering South Africa from the late 1700's, or the White settlers, they are in fact still a relatively homogeneous group today -- regarded as the oldest living ethnic group with the oldest and completely unique spoken language on the planet. For people of countries like the US, who are reading this , and noticing the liberal use of terms like 'blacks', 'whites' etc, rest assured there's nothing racist about that -- it's simply the custom amongst all of the people in South Africa to refer to themselves and others that way.
I am also a coloured from South Africa, & I appreciate how you've dealth with this topic.Currently, in South Africa, coloured people are marginalised and discriminated against, & because of the fact that they are so diverse, are sometimes labelled as not having a culture.This is just part of the experience of being a coloured person in modern day South Africa.
@@m2ranojaholo79 it is true I was raised with this mentality as well but the whole ama2000s went to school together and this made me learn alot about how powerful all african minds are and alot of bantu south africans are xenophobic against other africans it is all a full circle if we dont break it brother. but I cannot abandon my culture it does and history and is a ethnicity not a race it would be cruel is someone asked all the xhosa and zulu to leave there culture and language behind so why do it to us.
@@calvinfrancis1614 coloured dont have a language they betrayed us as blacks we have been fighting together for freedom and we reach the goal but you choose to move along with Afrikaans speaking not following your roots ..look at what happening now because of yall
I'm half Russian Jewish and Rwandan I grew up in South Africa. I was never aware of my race until everybody started refering to me as coloured. Having lived previously in Tanzania until the age of 12. In my school I very quickly was integrated into a group of coloured friends and I adopted the mannerisms, slang and way of dressing. Today I live abroad and realise what a strange automated categorisation of race that was but still very fascinating.
I am from Kazakhstan and I was always wondering about how South Africa and Kazakhstan alike in terms of our multiracial societies. We did not have apartheid, but we have Slavic people and a little of German people as 20% of our population. 65% are Kazakh people, who are themselves mix of East Asian and middle Eastern people with nomadic history. And 15% are of all sorts of other people, that’s all due to the USSR. I am myself mixed 50-50 Ukrainian and Kazakh who was born in Kazakhstan, in the city where Russians are 75% of the population, and I am a Russian language native person. Unfortunately, mixed people here do not have that much of identity and solidarity as you do in South Africa, but I am so much sure that we encounter the same struggles and questions in live. Hope one day I’ll visit South Africa.
It's not true that just anyone can identify as Coloured based on bi/multi-racial ancestry. It's as much an ethnicity and culture to us as a race. It comes with dialects, mannerisms, cultural practices, family traditions, etc. which means that it's not as 'loose' as it may seem. It's cool to see some sources online involving us - as it's almost impossible to find exclusively Coloured scholarship, even on an academic level.
William Veldman. U a first class idiot, she meant 'scholarship' as in studying a certain field. Not scholarship as in bursary. Your knee- jerk reaction to blame racism is sad.
@@catherinesterling1685 the term coloured was created in the 1800s by the British to reclassify the term cape slave it was brought to America in the 1920s or 1970s to break down links between slave ancestors across the world it was all part of the bigger picture.
I'm a cape coloured and this video will be informative for people who don't know about the coloured people of South Africa. There's still much that you need to get right when it comes to facts about the coloured people of South Africa. I'm sure you would learn alot by visiting and experiencing our great ethnic group. Thanks for putting so much effort though.
I'm coloured and live in Europe many people think I am Spanish,Latino,Filipino,Indian or Malay..I have heard it all..And did a dna tes I am indeed mixed with ancestry around the world..it's beautiful..every South African coloured must do their dna test.
I’m also coloured and live in Europe. I have also heard it all: Moroccan, Egyptian, Indonesian, Spanish, mexican, Surinamese, Indian, Turkish. People don’t have a clue what I am and I think that is really special.
I am south african (afrikaner) but have lived in Canada 🇨🇦 for 15 years, growing up on the northwest coast close to Namibia having friends who were colored now feels like such a privilege being exposed to such a beautiful beautiful culture ❤ I cannot be more proud that they will keep the afrikaans language alive
@@slimebeingslimey8266 Congo lol the real south African must go to Congo no you you fuckn go to moon you lost soul that speak a racist language..tik fo*l lmao 😂😂
@@slimebeingslimey8266 you also need to wake up most of your kind they already overseas,they sell their houses and if you dont save now..next year you will be a street kid lmao. African Americans are coming home to South Africa wake up..we need this country to be black again..we will teach a good lesson that you will never forget
@@xhosaguy4889 make africa blk you dom poes it was never blk khoi and griqua arent blk you dom poes.who scared of americans tou send non existent death threats to non blk and yt people more anything.we run out countries bullshit
Thank you for taking the time to research and share your knowledge, I always enjoy your videos 🙂 I am from Zimbabwe, I'm 3rd generation coloured whose mix is Indian, black and white. May I highlight that the term "goffal" is present in Zimbabwe yes, but it is a derogatory term used to address the less refined, less educated, free spirited, often economically disadvantaged colored (various mix) people - not associated with heritage as you'd mentioned. Sadly, they do not receive socio economic support from the government which increases the cycle of poverty in this minority group who are often caught up in a life of minimum wage, alcohol abuse & early parenthood. In fact, constitutionally all of us coloureds / mixed race - are considered aliens by our very own government. Zimbabwe ID cards have a section for ones' village of origin code but because we do not have "villages of origin" as an urban social group, our 'village code' is inputted as 00 /alien - meaning we are not officially recognised as authentic Zimbabweans. Many do not qualify for 51% black businesses ownership rights, certain other benefits and of course equality. There were a handful of mixed individuals who attempted to highlight the necessity of official recognition but as per usual, such matters are considered trivial and results in round and round tail chasing. We are often discriminating referred to by our fellow black Zimbabweans as "Mkaradi" or "mKeda" the latter being derived from Arcadia, one of 3 (Arcadia, Braeside & Cranborne - referred to as the ABCs) densely "goffal" populated areas in the capital city. Too white to be black and too black to be white for us to be whole heartedly welcomed into local social groups. It's sad really, as we are all human beings after all and have all endured the same mistreatment and annihilation by the colonizers. Acknowledgement, Recognition & then Unity would solve a lot of these labels & discrimination.
@morton christie They annihilated our culture, our freedom, our self worth and many rights. They made us slaves. Do our ancestors have to be massacred and killed to warrant fair treatment from the government that has sentenced us to perpetuated poverty? Millions of people should not be swept under the rug with socioeconomic genocide.
I'm from Cape Town. A fairly accurate video - only slight correction to be made is that coloureds were still vastly more privileged than blacks under apartheid. The squatter camp of Khayalitsha displayed is a largely black area - coloureds were housed in apartment type slum buildings now prevalent in the area roughly known as the Cape Flats. Coloureds actually held the right to vote right up to the advent of Apartheid (they interestingly boycotted the election, which resulted in them being stripped of those rights, not to mention property - boycotting elections not a wise thing to do!) and weren't officially discriminated against prior to Apartheid. There is also widespread debate about whether or not there were Bantu (the Xhosa are a Bantu subgroup) people at the Cape at the time of the Dutch arrival in 1652. The Khoi and San are actually distinct people groups, the San being nomadic hunter-gatherers and the Khoi being pastoralists (almost wiped out by small pox with their modern descendants mostly found in Botswana). If any of this has piqued your curiosity, might I suggest a second attempt at the people groups of Africa - it is the world's second largest continent and would probably warrant being split up into its various regions!
There are many books available on the early history of the Cape. I confess that I don't currently have the exact source material at my fingertips regarding the 1948 election. I don't currently live in South Africa and that information was in my class notes from varsity days. It's relatively recent history, so there isn't much available at present and there would obviously be those that would rather have that little snippet of history forgotten. Something to look out for when I go help my folks pack up next year.
There is reference to the coloured boycott of the 1948 election in this Wikipedia article, under the pre-apartheid heading: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloureds
Very interesting. I'm a Kenyan whose maternal grandfather is Cape coloured. We know very little about him as he passed away when my mother was only 2 years old. We only know he was from Cape Town and had come to Kenya in the 1920s prospecting for gold or diamonds. He had married my grandmother and had several children but passed away in Kenya.
COME TO CAPE TOWN AND COME CHECK THE ARCHIVES IN ROELAND STREET...CAPE TOWN....IT DOESN'T MEAN BECAUSE YOU ARE BLACK YOU ARE NOT COLOURED....MY FATHER AND MY COUSINS ARE BLACK SKIN TOO AND MOST COLOUREDS IN CAPE TOWN
My Grandmothers family are Cape coloured and I have been tracing her ancestry through MyHeritage which connects you to Family Search where you can review loads of documentation from South Africa. She moved to the UK when she married my Grandad and we never met her family. My mum and I also did our ancestry dna which is useful to find relatives and gain access to their tree to see if what you find lines up. Both of my great grandparents were recorded as coloured and were of European, khoisan, southern and western Bantu and Indian decent. Good luck with your search😊
You must come visit CAPE TOWN...AND LET YOUR SOUL AND SPIRIT FIND HEALING AND LET YOUR SPIRIT FINDS IT RESTING PLACE...SO THAT YOU CAN FREELY BREATH........COLOURED DOES NOT MEAN..YOU ARE NOT BLACK SKINNNED,WHITE SKINNED,BROWN SKINNED OR LIGHT OR FAIR SKINNED.......IF YOU CAN CLAIM AND IT WAS TOLD TO YOU THAT YOU OF COLOURED DESCENT THEN YOU BELONGS TO US.....NOT EVEN A COLOURED PERSON CAN DENY YOU.....ITS IN YOUR BLOOD..ITS IN YOUR SOUL ITS IN YOUR SPIRIT ITS IN YOUR DNA.......COME AND MAKE THE CIRCLE BIGGER....CAPE TOWN AND THE WESTERN CAPE OR THE REST OF SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO YOU......MANDELA,RAMAPHOSA AND ITS BLACK PEOPLE ARE NATIVES OF THE LAND
Wow, thanks!! I am just seeing your post. I had posted that 5 years ago. Both my parents are mixed race. Mom is Cape Coloured and Kenyan African. Dad is Kenyan African and Welsh. I will have to travel to Cape Town.@@jimihendrix5308
@@jimihendrix5308I was brought up as a European Afrikaner and the became a Kiwi by choice. I now know that a Frenchman came to Africa on the late 1600’s, married his Batavian slave after setting her free and walla…….. I am not French, not Malaysian, or whatever. I am privileged to have rubbed shoulders with Africans, Basters, Coloureds, Maori, Europeans, Afrikaners, Souties (sorry I could not resist), Americans, Jewish people, Palestinians, Muslims, Indians, Sri Lankans, Chinese……….. Most were cool, others not so much. I used to carry an identity document that allowed me to live life as a European in South Africa. In NZ our census allows us to self identify against a list of identities, biological sex categories and genders, even other…… crazy world. It is my understanding that Kayelitsha is mainly Xhosa, but I stand corrected.
As a Capetonian by birth I grew up with coloreds they were essential to Cape Town's economy and are brilliant craftsmen. Thanks for a brilliant channel
How sick and stupid u are William..if us coloureds had to believe things said about black ppl yooh let me not go to your idiotic level..This I will say thou...black folks must love themselfs..there realy ain't no need go belittle others.. Just love your selfs
I'm a cape coloured and you said that anyone who has a variety of genetic makeup can be considered coloured. But genetically everyone is mixed. Every person in the world has this race or that race inside of them. But majority of coloureds in south Africa look mixed. And yeas there are different variations of coloured but mojrity of us cant really be identified into the white, black, Asian or indian category. So, we've established our own race... A race that couldn't be identified, identified itself... And, personally as a coloured, I don't like being called mixed race, because everyone is mixed and I don't feel that coloured should be called mixed due to people finding it difficult to determine which "race" we fit into Also "coloured" isn't just a race, it's a culture. We have our own customs, accents, slang, traditions and more... But yes, thank you for the informitive video
Mixed people were identified as coloureds by the Apartheid government. Blacks were identified as coloureds before and in some other countries they still do as they are referred as the people of colour. The apartheid government took it and gave it to the mixed people, because they didn't want to call them white which would give them access to many opportunities whites had, and also didn't want to call them black as it would increase their number as they were already the majority ... And at the beginning when people were identified as coloureds it wasn't only people mixed with black and white, but also Indians and other Asians
@@katlegotserema6720 Yes, that too. Yet, many coloured people look completely different from black south africans. As i said, there are different types of coloured people, some look a bit east asian, some look indian, some look a bit white even, and some look bantu, there are different variations of coloured people. When i said "established our own race" i didnt mean that we created the term coloured and categorised ourselves, i simply meant that we've reclaimed the word "coloured" and see it no longer as something to be ashamed of. Being multiracial shouldn't be something to discard simply because of inclusivity, we can still be included as part of The rainbow nation, because remember a rainbow wouldnt be a rainbow if all the colours were the same...
I agree with this post. The average can't be boxed into one particular race, the term Coloured just explain it so perfectly. Coloured because we come from many colours
@@katlegotserema6720 Yes but those Indians and Asians were absorbed into the broader Coloured community. Today your standard Indian or Chinese person won't be considered Coloured.
loved your video dude! As a coloured woman living in Europe, its often difficult to explain to people what race I am as the concept of coloured or cape coloured in SA is not the same as the definition of coloured in the USA for instance and so when I say i'm mixed race which doesnt really cut it, they automatically assume I have a black father and white mother or vice versa. Usually i am assumed to be latina or mexican or portuguese or brazilian before I explain that I'm a coloured South African. I appreciate your appreciation for our very specific and unique set of DNA that does not really exist anywhere else in the world. You didnt get all of the facts right but your understanding of what coloureds are and how they came about is more or less . correct! Also just a side note; being coloured is not just about being part black or white or being mixed, theres a definite culture and way of living that somewhat formed the stereotype you see in the media today, however, similarly to how coloured people can vary vastly in appearance they also vary vastly in lifestyle, accent and social class these days, with alot of coloured people identifiying as white or black depending on how they look, we can adapt to either race and culture if we so choose.
Really great video. Im coloured with Cape Malay, Indian and other Coloured ancestry from Northern and Eastern Cape. Just a correction Khyalitshae is a black township not a coloured area. Also Cape Coloureds have Indonesian and European ancestry along with Khoisan.
Thank you for creating this video because a lot of misconceptions exist about coloured South Africans. I had my DNA tested and it came back 48% African, 40% European and 12% Asian. Also keep in mind the European portion is not only Dutch because the Cape was the only major trade route to the east for all European countries until the Suez Canal was built.
666GGabriel My KhoiSan heritage is proudly Namaqua but I prefer to claim all of my ancestors not just the few that are politically convenient. That's why I self-identify as coloured because it gives me the space to be everything that I am... including KhoiSan
Nathan Cloete I had mine done aswell. I came back 22% African 33% Asian and 37% European and 8%Polynesian(no idea how I got this haha). Basically I'm a man of the world haha
J .dV Thats so cool! I think the polynesian came from the Dutch East Indies perhaps an island further east under Dutch control. Anything interesting under European? I got Iberian
Nathan Cloete Yeah well they include Philippines under South East Asia as well as Polynesia so it's probably from there. I mean I would say Scandinavian would be the only surprise but again the Germanic peoples have traces of Scandinavian and Denmark in them. Actually for Asia I got the 'Stan' area whatever it's called which is again a surprise because I'm not sure they came to S.A..
Glad you shared this with the world, think most Americans don’t know how Africa is diverse racially& experiences too. I often see they tend to extrapolate their experiences with mostly west & east Africans in the west onto rest of continent. Southern Africa is quite different from racial and cultural make up in many ways to other regions of continent. That is why South Africa is known as the rainbow nation; it’s one of the most racially& culturally diverse places in the world and the most diverse racially in Africa. Namibia is quite similar to SA as Namibia was part of SA till 1990. I’m South African, proudly so🇿🇦❤️ No I’m not Coloured though I get confused as one, it’s not my culture. I have major respect for Coloured ppl identifying as such and preserving their culture, just as long as they aren’t doing it to be anti-black
Thank you for understanding our perspective regarding preserving our identity and cultural experience. Coloured people were forced to become a community and they created their own cultural experience that is real and valid to them. Anti-blackness is most definitely an issue that my community needs to start addressing and actually begin to have a real conversation about. But there are many of us,like myself,in the coloured community who know and understand we have black ancestry and embrace that part of our identity,too. I have always felt that I can be connected to both parts of my identity. Both those parts of me that is coloured and black.
@@mssummer07Both Coloured.nd Black's have to embrace eachother even with our differences, just like Black's share same skin colour but different tribes nd tribalism, the only difference with coloureds nd Black's is skin colour although many many coloureds are dark skin, many with coarse hair too. Sit at the table get to know md understand eachother eachother, Give coloureds also land in the rural arears where they too can build for their mothers nd keep their goats nd cows.
Im a white dude from Joburg.. and coloureds are awesome! They have a distinct culture irrespective of shade or language or even location... (Although things are different on the flats then they are up here in Eldo's).. and they got the hottest girls by far! Aweh.
@@williamkhumalo5325 if we don't have culture why do you all aspire to be like us keep your negativity to yourself and stop talking crap about our people cause you guys are just immigrants period.
He's just jealous of you guys don't mind him but im a black guy and I have to sayColoureds are sweet tho fun to hang out with got the hottest girls in Joburg CPT to Durban and are funny too
Great video. What is strange is that in the UK the term coloured is considered derogatory for some reason, so whenever I talk about Cape Coloureds I have to explain that it is an entirely acceptable name
In Britain the term coloured is now only used to describe South African Coloureds. The word for anyone not white in Britain is now BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic)
Thanx for this Masaman, I'm Cape Coloured as well, Being from the Cape Malay group. Ever since last year I wanted to look into my Ancestry. From my mom's side, my Grandmother come from very Khoisan and Dutch background(she grew up in rural Cape Town) and Grandfather come from and Indian and Malay or Indonesian background, but looks very Indian(He grew up in the city) on my Dad's side Grandmother come from a very Malay or Indonesian as well as Dutch or German background(many of family close relatives are fare in skin blou, green or hazel eyes) and my Grandfather, I'm a bit confused. It's said by my dad that our African Ancestry could be between from Somalia or Tanzania, I also tracked down my last name in a region in the Philippines, so that possibly be a linked. One of my colleague at work ask me if I have maxican relatives😂😂 because curly long hair. Some people thought I'm from Sri Lanka😂😂. In my opinion, if another country classify me as black such as the US, I'm Cool with that, I'm so Big on the race thing(Not throwing my culture away though. Peace out Let's embrace each other guys✌✌👍👍😉😉
I am a colored South African. I also have zero South African ethnicity which took me by huge surprise after taking a DNA test to have an understanding of my ethnicity. It’s been a story coming on for a very long time that Cape Coloureds are from Dutch and Khoi San origins. I truly believed that this was my heritage. The pretty much half of my ethnicity which is European, is categorized as Irish, Welsh and Scottish. I am also Balkan and Scandinavian. My African heritage and ethnicity is from central east Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia) and South Asia which tells me my family were part of the slave trade and they somehow migrated down south to South Africa. It still puzzles me that I have no South African heritage. Why do I write this? For my other colored brothers and sisters, get your DNA tested. Let’s not assume what we’ve been told. We’ve been fed a lot of stories let’s find our own truth and be proud of it. Let’s be proud of who we are. Much love and light. Renee
@@ellamay8057 he is misleading because he describes himself as a coloured, and whilst that is true in one sense, he really is a Zulu. He was raised in a Zulu family by his Zulu mother. He father was not even South African. He doesn't have any family links to the Coloured community or to the white South African community. He might be clearer about this in his book but in interviews I have found him misleading.
@@frankie7529 Thanks. Yes. In his book he describes how he lived for some time in a coloured neighborhood but was not accepted because he identified himself as black. I had no idea about "Coloured " in SA and the cultural aspect of it, I researched a little bit. Very interesting. By the way Trevor Noal is Xhosa.
@@ellamay8057 sorry yes Xhosa not Zulu. Trevor Noah is only coloured through how he looks. I guess it's the same way in which Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are black. They don't have any black American grandparents but they look "black".
Haha, This video is so amazing. I am a coloured living in Cale Town...As you said there are different breeds of coloured. Some are very fair roned skines, and have softer straighter hair, and of course there are those who have more darker skin tones with more ethnic hair. However our community of diverse coloureds are one of the most intreting you’ll find in South Africa. My sister was travelin in London a few years back, and everyone thought she was Spanish...I’m verry glad you posted this video so people can be more aware of our history.
Great to hear you mentioned the Rehoboth Basters as well. Do note that many of the baster then mixed again with the Germans, whish is why so many have german surnames like Rittmann, Krohne, Morgenroth, Baumgarten, etc.
Im a coloured from cape town en my van is Links. I was in hospital and a german student told me that my name means left in german and i told her that it means left in afrikaans too. That made me wanna look up my ancestry even more
WOW! I was SO not expecting this video to be done by an American!.... Very well done!P.s. I'm a 'cape coloured', although I've sometimes been mistaken for hispanic and even white! Lol (My husband is though) :-)
It all depends on the amount of European influences in your Dna. In the old regime a third of the current population white population are actually reclassified colourds . The Cape colourd also have Malaysian side due to Malaysian slave and Portuguese sailors . And of course dutch. Just some more interesting facts.
Coloureds carry Afrikaans surnames. Does that make them less khois? It's about where you grow up... There are still San and Khois who speak Nu around Africa...Afrikaans doesn't have even one click , yet almost every coloured is a Khoi in the Cape. Xhosa people have, there's a chance of them being Khois or San too. No Khoi or San can claim to be 100 Khoisans especially in South Africa.
@@marinusdupreez161 the Malaysians are the last coloured slaves arived 1800 and the rest of us coloureds had arived 1480 with the Portuguese slaveships about 170 mix slaves that is Muslims ; Indians ; Madagascar mix with San and Korana slaves ; and in 1500 the Dutch and British took over and 1600 all the nations of Asia and Muslims ; West Africa ; Mauritius Zanzibar and East Africa arived on slaveships and the slaves were given the name coloureds at Capetown Slave Lodge Cape Castle Of Good Hope ; These two buildings is where history fully display 1838 the British abolished the slavery. The name coloured does not include Xhozas and Zulus ; we coloureds do not descend from Xhozas and Zulus. The Dutch did raped the slave woman that is wy European DNA. The first slaves from the African continent to America is the Beta Isrealites in Ethiopia between 1300 and 1400
Yes, we 'coloureds' are described as an ethnic group. Its very difficult to describe or define us in any other way. Coloured is just a broad umbrella term to define people of varying mixed origins - what else could they call us? We coloured by our Ancestral mix, and then coloured by the culture we have cultivated over the past 400 years. One cannot be called coloured because you are biracial. No one accepts responsibility for us, we are just here. In South Africa only two races count and dominate - white or black. We kind of there somewhere in the background - you know that illegitimate kid that lives with his mother in another town that everyone knows about but no one cares about and will have no part of the family inheritance. I'm sure it's like that all over the world, where there is mixing - we may be unique in culture but this situation is not unique wherever men travelled and needed to refresh or offload. We have a patched up culture that people try to make the best out of. That's what the Cape Flats consists of. It's not all bad, people make it out and some make it big - the rest live in council housing, wendy houses, or over crowded homes. Shacks is a more recent housing option, but not the housing option of choice and not that common. Look up Cape Flats. True that even sadly by SA standards we are mainly known for our alcohol abuse, gangsterism, organised crime, idiosyncrasies, 'coloured accents' and for our sense of humour. We generally are not really taken seriously. We are and can be so much more than the above but sadly this is how we are stereotyped in the media. We have yet to learn how to turn this mess we've been dealt with into a powerful message of hope and inspiration. These days there is far far far less mixing of coloureds with whites, and even far less with blacks due to area segregation and basic economics. However far more whites and blacks are now in interracial relationships than ever before. It's interesting to see where this may go? What really is the difference between a biracial child and a coloured child?Only culture? It's a slippery slope to define, but interesting to watch. We are diverse, but our situation is not unique - but it was nice to see someone talk about us, kind of know who we are.
Gill Campbell u must come to understand the term coloured was imposed by white people on multi racial people....during apartheid era.....to seperate people....hence the culture of coloureds started, but before apartheid we were living together black and coloured
Am impressed with your writing, but using the term coloured is what makes them alcoholic they feel that is their culture. If more talk the way u come out maybe
Senhor Gil CAMPBELL, O senhor não está na América ! O senhor está na África ! ( A sua língua materna é o "Afrikaans" e NÃO é o Zulu ou o Cosa ou outra língua Bantu ). Entendeu ?
I'm also a so called Cape coloured..l'm mixture of Dutch and Indian and whatever else that added to me being who l am today..Why not show photos of how most of our people looks like and there living conditions besides gangsters and shacks.And beside that's a black township.We coloured people are a beautiful and interesting race.From dark to light shades..green eyes , blue and brown eyes and hair from straight to being kinky.it all depends on your genes
@@lwazimorris4973 yes green eyes And no. It doesn't mean wanting to look white You get coloureds who are dark skinned that'll have green eyes, blue eyes, hazel and all sorts of mixtures. Just like light skinned coloureds. (This I'm now saying from personal experience) If you go to any coloured community in Cape Town you'll see this
You got this perfectly! Just to add that khoisan is actually a collective when we talk about both khoi and san as they are different. I come from khoi like most cape coloureds. In the northern cape is where coloureds are most San because the san are the hunters who were and are mostly from that part of the country and khoi were more on the coast living from the sea and ofcourse more gatherers than hunters. I love the much clearer picture you depict here because most people even south africans think we come from white and black and it is much more complicated than that. We have our own "suburbs" with our own language that does not just develop out of the blue when you come from black and white. We are more khoi than anything else. We are native to south africa. Our ancestors were the only people the settlers found here. Your explanation is deeply appreciated coming from someone is is not even South African. Thanks dude.
Y'all are mostly as mix of European and Asians. Koi koi and San are native Africans. Y'all are not native. Just a mixture of invaders, Asian slaves and natives.
@EstaJeanette-nk7fj true. If we are not native to south africa, where are we native from? Are you then saying that we are not the descendants of the khoi and san?
@4clue y'all are descendants of majority Europeans and Asians. Stop clinging to only khoi khoi and San. Saying that y'all are khoi khoi and San is deleting the actual khoi khoi and San people. Y'all are just mixed. Khoi khoi and San are not mixed. They are 100 percent native Africans.
@EstaJeanette-nk7fj so you are just avoiding the questions. Just talking a lot doesn’t make you intelligent. You don't know me from anywhere. I'm griekwa and know my history very well. If you don't have anything factual or intelligent to day just keep quiet and focus on your race and culture not mine.
@@4clue khoi khoi and San are part of my race. They are native black Africans like me. I am focusing on them. Y'all are not part of us( native black Africans).
Hi i have to give you a high five on this video. I am a so called colored lady from South Africa (with too much ancestry to even mention lol. You have really given a fresh and exciting positive perspective and opinion on my diverse family. Much respect to you! Keep it up.
Your video was excellent regardless of the fact that some of the information may not be entirely correct. My ethnic group or race is irrelevant as far as my skin color is concerned. I was born in South Africa and my ancestry dates back to the time of Van Riebeeck. Thus said, with the interbreeding of the different races, it is not for some political party to say where the white people, colored people or any other race in South Africa today belongs, besides their land of birth. Like yourself, I love the people of this land. It is just so sad that the ignorant and uneducated masses are swept up to believe they will get the wealth of the privileged few. When South Africa became a free democracy, it became free for anyone to work and achieve their own wealth. Anyone believing that he or she will be given anything is sadly misled and used to do the atrocities of evil and corrupt politicians. The colored of South Africa are beautiful people with a sense of humor second to none. So are the Afrikaners and equally so are the bantu people. Sadly there are bad elements in all of these groups that are rising to prominence with real scary idealogies..
One thing you must note is that coloured does not necessarily mean indigenous South African. A lot of these people think they are one with the khoi. The khoi san people don't even want to be labeled as coloured. Also, the khoi people have a very distinct look which is not the typical indo/malay look of cape coloureds.
There isn't anymore real khoi people anymore .Coloureds are very complex .I would try to describe us but it would be super inaccurate .If our racist government doesn't mind a D.N.A. test we could find out where ?What?Who?
I really enjoyed your video. It's very informative and not at all divisive. I also visited the states and was often mistaken to be Mexican and sometimes Asian. I am of the Cape Malay sub group. Keep up the great work you do👍
An interesting and pretty accurate analysis. As a Capetonian, looking at you, I would not think you are Cape Coloured. I'd say you are of our very prominent Portuguese community with some Coloured mixing a bit of distance back in time. It is true that until the 80s, coloureds were en masse segregated (as were Indians and the various Bantu tribes). That said, I had neighbours who were coloured. Like anything,, economics plays its part. The shanty town images you display at the 5 minute mark are rarely inhabited by coloureds. Those are typically first generation into the city from the Bantu tribal lands and other countries to our north (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, DRC, Nigeria). Coloureds tend to live in ordinary brick houses in formal suburbs with normal streets, etc. Khayeltisha (5m18s) will barely have a Coloured in it... that is a Bantu suburb and a coloured venturing in there would be taking her/his life into his/her hands. The gang members you show have all been to prison (their jail chop) and will be members of the numbers gangs (26s, 27s, 28s). They are from Mannenberg, Elsie's river, Lavender Hill. The gangs are not new - Look up "Numbers Gangs" or a fascinating study back to the 1920s to see how massive and organized they are - I'm talking 600,000 members in the Western Cape alone. They are into meth and tend to fight (like war-zone fight) among themselves... 100 deaths in their areas over the weekend is not unusual. As you pointed out, Coloureds have massively differing genes and cultures. Those of the Cape Flats / ganglands are one extreme expression. but there are equally garden suburbs too with prosperous families, and then there are those much more closely associated with the original Khoi-khoi and san who are laborers living on the farms into the Northern Cape. Then there are the communities with stronger heritage from Malaysia (brought over by the VOC as slaves from the 1600s onward) - the Malays. They are Moslem and an entire culture and set on their own (who do mix) but keep to their culture. And, in the modern world, coloureds are entirely integrated into every other suburb and strata of society - my neighbours (I live in a very wealthy area), my kids' friends, our schools... completely integrated and indistinguishable from anyone else making progress in life. Oh, the Afrikaaners - of all people - fully understand the Coloureds and their dialects. Agitators aside, we actually all get on rather well given our diversity.
He wouldn't look out of place on the Cape flats. He looks like alot of my family members. I don't know what the average Portuguese person looks like but that wouldn't have been my first thought
I was on an identity trip , results of my DNA , 28 percent South Indian , 24 percent Khoi San , 10 percent Scandinavian , small percentages , Indonesia , Malaysia , Phillipines, Indonesia ,Jewish , and Balkan. From 3 continents , a citizen of the world .
I'm a first generation Coloured with a white Dutch father and a black Shona Zimbabwean mother. Lol South African Coloureds don't accept me as Coloured because I'm not part of the culture. They insist I call myself "mixed race" (which is literally the same thing). Zimbabwean "Goffal" Coloureds do accept me though. Being from Zimbabwe and having family there, there isn't that much racism from ordinary people, it's mainly the government. Props on the video btw!
You arent coloured, coloured is used to describe the modern ancestors of the indeginious khoisan people, thats why they dont accept you bcuz coloured people dont consider themselves mixed race because most arent
Teawan Joseph Did you watch the video? Coloureds are by definition mixed race. There is very little pure Khoisan bloodline in SA. Most Coloureds have Dutch, Khoisan and Malay admixture or British and Zulu. In any case I came in to contact with the term in Zimbabwe first where the term is applied to me no questions asked.
I just came across this video and I'm surprised that this topic received international attention.The majority of what's been said is surprisingly well-informed. Many of the comments are a bit defensive and misguided but I like the conversation that it has sparked. I am a Coloured, unapologetically so, and I honour my Khoe and San heritage (something many Coloureds can't or won't do) because it has shaped the majority of my family's customs and traditions. Numerous governments, ethnic groups and individuals have sought (and still seek) to deny our significance in an effort to avoid giving us equal recognition and thereby portray themselves as superior. For a bit of clarity to those who aren't coloured and might come across this - we are a people in our own right, not a mixture of some borrowed genetic and cultural traits. Not a side-effect or by-product as some would have us believe, but people with a proud heritage and unique character. We share many things with many others but we are our own.
I am a cape colored, you dont see us as a ethnic group, well we not only defined by RACE, but we have a way of living, that makes us an ethnic group, and we see each other as the same people, I guess only you people dont... And this pic you have here of gangsters, does not look like a Cape Flats Gang but an American one, Salvatrucha by the signs they use, oh for all those comments with regards to race, scientifically race does not exist and is a man made construct.. come on - you share 90% of your DNA with a banana ... 1% of your total genes are used to check for ethnicity thats how similar Humans are, your dear pigments depends on your environment and is there to protect you not segregate you from the rest of humanity....
As a Cape Coloured, I say thank you for this video. Though I knew about the South African Coloured history I wasn't all too aware of the Goffals of the former Rhodesia, Rehoboth Basters of Namibia. Thank you for this informative video. From what I have to come to know about my family is that we are descendants of many cultures and I have come to accept it.
The 2 gang members shown before the ms13 gang members were cape coloured gangsters. Either members of the 26, 27 or 28's gang. They have facial marks/imperfections that suggests they probably are what we know as "button koppe" (a form of quailudes still used in SA known as mandrax).
ExSA from the Cape. I used to sit on train stations and have fun guessing the ancestry of fellow commuters. I long came to the conclusion that we had the most diverse ancestry on the planet, the only missing type seemed to be South American. Mentioned this thought to a coloured lady, and she told me that her family was ex-St Helena, but originally from South American. The most mixed group of all.
Because Cape coloured is a specific group of coloured. Mostly a mix between the Malay slaves imported by Dutch slave owners, Europeans, and the indigenous Khoisan people. Our ancestors all lived around the Cape and spoke Dutch. Nowadays we speak Afrikaans (or afrikaaps).
Here I am, as Coloured as you get. Its quite interesting that people from thousands of miles understand us and that we have our own culture whether ee Muslim or Christian our colouredness bind us. The black South Africans cant get this. It is mind boggling for them. Thanks for sharing! Yeah, my Family consists of Xhosas, whites, KhoiSan, Indian and even Chinese.
Awe masam I'm a coloured from south Africa and a freelance journalist, your research is impressive, but there are way more for you to know about coloured ppl, feel free
Very informative video. However I live in Durban SA, and I can tell you interracial marriage is not at an "all-time high." Most interracial marriages occur between foreigners such as Americans and Europeans that come here. Most Afrikaners want to marry an Afrikaner. I've seen mixing between whites and indians here though, but that is a recent trend.
Masaman it would still be a coloured. Basically it's anyone with mixed ancestry. Different families tend to have completely different ancestry. My uncles mother is Portuguese and came with her family over during the apartheid time. The father was classified as white as he had a light skin and the mother and children were classified as coloured as they had a olive skin tone. She only saw her father on his death bed. These stories are very common amongst the coloured community.
I'm a mixed person in South Africa, but I'm not from the Cape; my ancestors and family are from KZN. I am a mix of South Indian (ancestry from indentured labourers brought to Durban by British), Zulu (self-explanatory as it's KZN) and Western Europe (Dutch from Pietermaritzberg). My family and I do not speak Afrikaans the way Cape Coloureds do; instead, English is our home/first language. However, I _can_ speak fluent Afrikaans as it is taught as a First Additional Language at many schools in South Africa, including mine. However, my maternal grandparents (born and raised in KZN) did not learn Afrikaans at school and were instead more at ease speaking isiZulu as a second language (English was still the family's home/first language then). Anyway, I'm glad you also mentioned the mixed people in South Africa outside of the Cape Coloured groups because there are some key differences between us. My extended family is mostly Christian, with heavier Indian ancestry and we practice South-African-Indian traditions. Others recognize us more as _culturally_ South African Indian as opposed to South African Coloured, despite being mixed. This is probably because most of the family was born and raised in Durban and many still live there.
@@moegamatgielmie9629 the coloured tribe. In my opinion and view the coloured people are an ethnicity and race is black(I'm coloured as well). My race black and my tribe is coloured. I don't use it for any official documentation because other people would say I'm doing it for convenience but internally I believe I am black
@@RedReignAuto your statement is wrong, it's seen as a race more than an ethnicity, because a white man marries a black woman today in South Africa, the kid is seen as colored, even though he/she knows nothing about the culture or tribe, so it's seen more as a race my friend
I'm coloured too of Malay and Griqua ancestry and look more Indian like many of my family members. There's a lot of distrust between Coloureds and other groups. So I just see myself as Coloured, not black, not mixed and definitely not white. You can identify however you like
There are beautiful Miss SA who are coloured. This is my guess of their mix: Ellen Peters - black/white/malay Amy Kleinhans - white/khoisan/black Bernelee Daniell - white/malay Jo-Ann Strauss - white/black/khoisan Tansey Coetzee, Tatum Keshwar - both are indian/white/black Tamaryn Green - white/black/khoisan/indian
Bernelee Daniel shows more Khoisan ancestry than Amy and its highly likely that Amy has Malay as well. Infact all of them probably has some White, black, khoisan, Indian and Malay, which is typical for Cape Coloureds
@@tigerzulu759 i have heard Khoisan/coloured people refuse to be called “black” or “bantu”. When asked ti describe their skin color, they would reply “yellowish”
Well done my boy. that was a brief history of colouredom. Just one thing @5:00 you used and image and "township" which is largely black. A colored township would be Mitchells Plain for example. Shout out to Strandfontein. Im intrigued now, i will be rooting around your parts of the innanets for a while. From a Cape Town/coloured girl.
I thank you so so much for this! I was just told BY A BLACK MAN that there is no such thing as a coloured there’s only while black and Asian’s It’s crazy!! We are a community we are beautiful and we are the zests of South Africa ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@akanni2889 There is no race called black or white either. Asian is a nationality. All these things are social constructs and because they are social constructs, the Coloured race does exist.
@@akanni2889 Well if race is socially constructed then we can also create our own race group. Coloureds all actually have the ancestral links but just to varying degrees. So all of us have some Asian, European, Khoi etc just to varying amounts, depending on the person.
Thank you for posting this. It is very informative and professionally done. You've saved me some work putting together a video on the same topic! :-) It recently came up on many of my cousins' and my DNA results that we have traces of Bantu and I was able to trace this through my grandfather's grandfather, a Cape Malay who worked for the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij (Dutch-SA Railway).
I am South African and I would personally consider myself coloured but society see me as English European South African. I believe most south africans are very mixed. For example me my paternal grandfather mixed scottish and 'afrikaans' raised english, grandmother Natal English, maternal grandfather from 'Chicago Irish American' cross 'british south african' English and grandmother Lithuanian Jew cross 'coloured st. Helenan' of east asian, english and zulu descent but 'English'. However my maternal grandmother may have had a tswana or baster father which may have been hushed due to such such a stigma in the 1920s/30s. Besides for my brother my closest living relative my nephew is greek cross cape malay coloured maternity and classified as 'coloured' though he is as 'white' as I however with a heavy 'cape malay coloured' accent and we are 'English' South Africans. But I am classified as English South African while 50% of extended family are 'Afrikaans'
Hey my dear young friend, howzit ekse? I'm so glad that you didn't forget about us Goffals from Zim ekse brah, ha! Ya, so my man where are you from Hommie?
There isn't a white family , whose ancestors have been in South Africa for 200 years or more who hasn't got coloured ancestry. Its written in their faces. The great mistake of the Afrikaners was ( is ) to attempt to deny this. By the way the pictures you show are black African squatter camps and not coloured dwellings. Under Apartheid , the definition of a white person, was "some one who is generally accepted as a white person, and obviously looks like a white person." It was never deemed to be some one of pure European descent.. see how cunning they were.
Awe Brother i'm a Kallit from the Cape of Goodhope, for me personally i believe that we claimed that name of coloured as our own for a reason greater than race itself, you see my brother, if you identify as a coloured, no matter how you look and when I say that I don't look at you for the colour of your skin but for your roots of your spirit that's been carved into this physical existence throughout time and civilizations that came before, the ideology behind being a coloured in my mind is to bring peace among eachother regardless of the colour of your skin, identifying as a coloured just means that you accept and love your brothers, sisters, friends and their families no matter if they lighter than you or darker than you. Brother i will say it like it is cause that is what a Kallit will dala, We were all black once before and we were also white before, these are all conditions of climate, time and certain events that happen to the earth that made our species have to adapt to certain environments and the conditions those said environments come with, so why are we still identifying as a colour like black and white when the truth is we are all one species of a creation of Our Creator the colour doesn't make you less than or more than the other person, we are all made equally to achieve enlightenment in this life we chose to be born into, the fact that when you realize you were meant to do something with this life you were given is already one part of yourself trying to find out who you are, we are more than this physical being so the colour doesn't matter, we are a Spirit and this my brother is The Spirit of Truth. We are all African but don't be proud of that, be grateful. Africa is the birthplace of The Will To Be Free. Coloured is my Identity and African is my Roots but my Spirit, My Spirit shines Forever beyond this Earth and is Everlasting, I accept that when I say i'm a Coloured, I accept that I am the Evolution of The Spirit of Truth. my people kill eachother because of the enemy but the time of a Revolution of True Peace is About To Occur and it will happen during this most chaotic time in This Civilization. Identify as Coloured no matter what descent you are, my people will accept you just for saying you feel like you a Kallit. Safe Brother
I am a Cape Coloured, besides the fact that we have the greatest gene pool and are such a diverse people , our culture are so diverse as well. Our people are blessed artistically, athletically and socially we know how to enjoy life. We have the 7th Wonder of the world in Cape Town, namely Table Mountain and when you ever here during the Festive season that's New year you will see how Cape Town coloured live, our celebration of life during this time is the pinnacle of Diversity and we own that as a proud people. We have social economic challenges like most people but we are people of faith also and I am just so proud and lucky being born and raised in the Cape Flats. Thank you for sharing our culture, we are actually the future of humanity with more interracial marriages on the rise but we lack recognition from the SA government with real contributions to protect and enhance what we have become as a people. God bless Cape Town and its people, Thanks once again for a wonderful depiction of our history.
Let's be honest as kallits as long as we eat good and have good music and a gally blik, we be the happiest people on earth. And no shxt on that festive part. We fxcking love December. It really is a celebration of life. In fact, everytime we eat it feels like a celebration. Food plays a major role here.
I am a black South African of Zulu and Xhosa descent, and identify as black. Yet my elder sister is Zulu and white Portuguese but she also identifies as black. This is due to the fact that she was raised by her Zulu(mother) side of the family. Just like Trevor Noah identifies as black. So to sum it up, being coloured is a culture, not all mixed race people are accepted as coloured due to their ethnicity. Being coloured is a very complex and beautiful way of life.
Well Trevor Noah is coloured, but is culturally black
Trevor Noah self-identified as coloured until moving the US. He has a whole stand-up bit about it.
@@dulmater Trevor Noah is a black man with a foreign father.
Yes coloureds South Africans can look very different from each other and are a multiracial group of ppl as they are not only 2 races but 3 or more..every coloured should do their dna test.
@@Fordzee he is bi racial.Coloureds are multiracial.
Hands up if you are coloured! He did a great job.
Just he didn't go Abit further into the cape town coloreds we got Indian blood aswell
@@sethwelman8621Correct.
As a white Capetonian I can honestly say that Cape Town is not Cape Town without the coloured people. They are funny AF, diverse, full of culture, love sport and a really really proud people.
Are their some that don't like sport I mean not everyone likes sport
Don't forget the Albino populations.
@@tudormiller887 albinos are an extremely small part of the population anywhere though
If a settler said my people were 'funny AF' I'd be pissed. Oh n btw, Zulu people were never 'imported' anywhere, they ruled the places they went to. One true thing though, the Dutch men raped those Khoi women and produced these kids, however, the very Khoi people were a mixture of other African people, that's why Sarah Baartman was enslaved for having an 'African' bottom, which the European women tried to imitate for centuries making dresses that gave them the appearance of a 'bum'. I hate how pink people make it their mission to distort history and make shit up.🙄🙌🏿
@@PenguinLover897awê
I hope all the coloureds that posted here a year and two years ago are still Alive and well.
HOPPPA! I'm also a coloured.
What do you mean?
@@AllThingsMaskandiChanel lol
@@1beinghuman170 yooi
@@1beinghuman170 same bruh
Who else is from South Africa?
Zulu from KwaZulu
Kaalvoet klonkie from Slaapstad now living in UK.
Kaapstad
What is South Africa like ?
South Africa Coloured
Im Coloured when I went to New York most people thought I was Latino. In my Family my Grandmother was Indian and my Grandfather was an imigrant from Hong kong. I even have Arabic , Khoi & San family from my dad side,its so funny how many races are mixed into my DNA. Thanks for this review most Americans dont get it.
Kill3rk1 You can pass for Latino, though you may not have any Portuguese or Spanish ancestry. Latinos themselves are mixed with African, European, Indigenous, and Asian ancestry.
Kill3rk1 Latinos are often super mixed people too especially ones from Puerto Rico Dominican republic and Cuba they have high amounts of African and native American and European dna and native dna is close to East Asian dna so I can see why people might confuse you for latino
But Latinos can be white, black or indigenous too. In Peru or Bolivia most Latinos are what in the U.S. now call "Native Americans" while in Argentina and Uruguay most Latinos are "White" (a great part of them with Italian, German and French ancestry, apart from Spanish)
I'm also "Coloured" (Black African and White European ancestry) and people mistake me for Brazilian or North African from time to time. Not really surprising, because many Brazilians, as well as North Africans also have mixed Eurasian-African ancestry.
Mattman Key Not necessaril native american, both my parents are lebanese migrants in Colombia. Im likely a mix of asian, african and southern european. but I dont think native american
Very informative video. I am a Cape Malay Coloured and I've have learned a few things about myself by watching this. Just a few things I could add, Coloureds living in the middle-class suburbs of Cape Town are mostly English speaking and those living in the more impoverished areas are mostly Afrikaans speaking. If you are a Millenial coloured who has been brought up in a middle-class family, your parents are almost certainly Afrikaans speaking who raised you to speak English as your first language. For this reason, our English is not really proper and consists of a moersie lot (a whole lot) of Afrikaans words and slang lol.
im Afrikaans
brought my children up speaking English
I'm coloured and your statement is on point
Yep ......born in Wynberg born in District 6 😅😅 not in Bellville Coloureds are funny poeple color features and hair texture was a really big issue then came the language 😅😅😅😅😅
06:00 Just need to correct you on that point : Being a bilingual (English and Afrikaans) White South African from Cape Town myself, I can definitely tell you that Afrikaans speaking Whites and Coloureds have absolutely no problem understanding each other, whatsoever. Though they do have a distinct accent and way of talking, so does various regional Afrikaans White people as well, with prominent differences between Northern, Western and Southern White Afrikaans speakers. All easily understood though. There is one absolutely outstanding characteristic of the Coloured people, especially the Cape Malay, you should know about : They are especially known for their sharp wit and supreme sense of humour, lovely people to know ! I would also like to say, from my life experience growing up in Cape Town, I think the Cape Coloured (aside from the Cape Malays) of the Cape Peninsula (including Cape Town and suburbs) are more strongly influenced by Indonesian, Batavian, Javanese origins, while the Coloureds of the areas outside the Cape Peninsula, towards Northern Cape and elsewhere, are more prominently influenced by Khoi origins (but, as with all people, this is just in general, not a fixed fact). Lastly : though it's nowadays the scientific norm to refer to the KhoiSan, these are in fact two very distinct groups -- the Khoi being larger indigenous brown skinned natives of South Africa, originally nomadic livestock farmers, and the San being the Bushmen as they still refer to themselves, and to this day preferring the desert areas. The San did not significantly mix with the Khoi, the Black groups entering South Africa from the late 1700's, or the White settlers, they are in fact still a relatively homogeneous group today -- regarded as the oldest living ethnic group with the oldest and completely unique spoken language on the planet. For people of countries like the US, who are reading this , and noticing the liberal use of terms like 'blacks', 'whites' etc, rest assured there's nothing racist about that -- it's simply the custom amongst all of the people in South Africa to refer to themselves and others that way.
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Maaifoedie De La Rey best komen kau.
Badrul Azmier jeff as
+Badrul Azmier terima kasih
Maaifoedie De La Rey Aku mesti melawat Cape Town suatu hari nanti! Sangat menarik.
As a Coloured from South Africa I’m just giving you a wave hi and saying thank you for this!
Rsa Coloureds Zimbawean coloureds all the same. Interesting loving kind people
I am also a coloured from South Africa, & I appreciate how you've dealth with this topic.Currently, in South Africa, coloured people are marginalised and discriminated against, & because of the fact that they are so diverse, are sometimes labelled as not having a culture.This is just part of the experience of being a coloured person in modern day South Africa.
@@ryankorah8817 thank you
Discriminated by who. It would also help if you rid yourselvels of the apartheid mentality that you are better than ethnic Africans.
@@m2ranojaholo79 it is true I was raised with this mentality as well but the whole ama2000s went to school together and this made me learn alot about how powerful all african minds are and alot of bantu south africans are xenophobic against other africans it is all a full circle if we dont break it brother. but I cannot abandon my culture it does and history and is a ethnicity not a race it would be cruel is someone asked all the xhosa and zulu to leave there culture and language behind so why do it to us.
@@calvinfrancis1614 coloured dont have a language they betrayed us as blacks we have been fighting together for freedom and we reach the goal but you choose to move along with Afrikaans speaking not following your roots ..look at what happening now because of yall
Are you closer to black or white people?
I'm half Russian Jewish and Rwandan I grew up in South Africa. I was never aware of my race until everybody started refering to me as coloured. Having lived previously in Tanzania until the age of 12. In my school I very quickly was integrated into a group of coloured friends and I adopted the mannerisms, slang and way of dressing. Today I live abroad and realise what a strange automated categorisation of race that was but still very fascinating.
What is a Russian Jewish? That’s just white, right?
I am from Kazakhstan and I was always wondering about how South Africa and Kazakhstan alike in terms of our multiracial societies. We did not have apartheid, but we have Slavic people and a little of German people as 20% of our population. 65% are Kazakh people, who are themselves mix of East Asian and middle Eastern people with nomadic history. And 15% are of all sorts of other people, that’s all due to the USSR. I am myself mixed 50-50 Ukrainian and Kazakh who was born in Kazakhstan, in the city where Russians are 75% of the population, and I am a Russian language native person. Unfortunately, mixed people here do not have that much of identity and solidarity as you do in South Africa, but I am so much sure that we encounter the same struggles and questions in live. Hope one day I’ll visit South Africa.
I'm South African with a part uzbek lineage, I also know of some coloureds with afghan in their ancestry.
It's not true that just anyone can identify as Coloured based on bi/multi-racial ancestry. It's as much an ethnicity and culture to us as a race. It comes with dialects, mannerisms, cultural practices, family traditions, etc. which means that it's not as 'loose' as it may seem.
It's cool to see some sources online involving us - as it's almost impossible to find exclusively Coloured scholarship, even on an academic level.
Does south africa have scholarshios based on race?
Caitlin Luter couldn't have said it better myself. Beautifully summed up
Daan van den tillaart yes but only black scholarships. No other racial groups are allowed to get scholarships.
William Veldman. U a first class idiot, she meant 'scholarship' as in studying a certain field. Not scholarship as in bursary. Your knee- jerk reaction to blame racism is sad.
u don't have culture what u talking about
I’m a Coloured man from South Africa & I’d just like to thank you for making this video! Your content is insightful & appears to be very accurate!
Black Americans were colored in 1920 whites import this demonic thinking everywhere they go
@@catherinesterling1685 the term coloured was created in the 1800s by the British to reclassify the term cape slave it was brought to America in the 1920s or 1970s to break down links between slave ancestors across the world it was all part of the bigger picture.
I'm a cape coloured and this video will be informative for people who don't know about the coloured people of South Africa. There's still much that you need to get right when it comes to facts about the coloured people of South Africa. I'm sure you would learn alot by visiting and experiencing our great ethnic group. Thanks for putting so much effort though.
The coloured people must stand together an take back their land
I'm coloured and live in Europe many people think I am Spanish,Latino,Filipino,Indian or Malay..I have heard it all..And did a dna tes I am indeed mixed with ancestry around the world..it's beautiful..every South African coloured must do their dna test.
My DNA percentage is as follows :15% African,40% Asian and 45 European.I am a Coloured South African.
I would love to see in DNA test from a cape colored
@@MetaphysicalExplorations And those geopolitical races are mixed aswell
I’m also coloured and live in Europe. I have also heard it all: Moroccan, Egyptian, Indonesian, Spanish, mexican, Surinamese, Indian, Turkish. People don’t have a clue what I am and I think that is really special.
@@MetaphysicalExplorationsso your barely African
Love it! You explained it perfectly!!!! I’m both Namibian 🇳🇦 and South African 🇿🇦
No he didn't it was average. Read the lies of 1652
I am south african (afrikaner) but have lived in Canada 🇨🇦 for 15 years, growing up on the northwest coast close to Namibia having friends who were colored now feels like such a privilege being exposed to such a beautiful beautiful culture ❤ I cannot be more proud that they will keep the afrikaans language alive
Lol😂😂😂😂 they should be happy that you brainwashed them kwaaaa f#ck that racist language in this country soon you will see what we will do
@@slimebeingslimey8266 Congo lol the real south African must go to Congo no you you fuckn go to moon you lost soul that speak a racist language..tik fo*l lmao 😂😂
@@slimebeingslimey8266 you also need to wake up most of your kind they already overseas,they sell their houses and if you dont save now..next year you will be a street kid lmao. African Americans are coming home to South Africa wake up..we need this country to be black again..we will teach a good lesson that you will never forget
@@xhosaguy4889 its racist language you fool .us coloureds made it yt people stole it from us.jys nogal poes dom aya
@@xhosaguy4889 make africa blk you dom poes it was never blk khoi and griqua arent blk you dom poes.who scared of americans tou send non existent death threats to non blk and yt people more anything.we run out countries bullshit
I'm coloured and I find this so interesting and accurate according to my ancestry dna I'm made up of European,Bantu,Khoisan,Indian, Asian,Polynesian
Wow, that’s amazing
C Mon :) now you are a rainbow
Your asian Im sorry
You are black
@@axelmani9958 ,she doesn't look African native, like you. She does look part black.
Thank you for taking the time to research and share your knowledge, I always enjoy your videos 🙂
I am from Zimbabwe, I'm 3rd generation coloured whose mix is Indian, black and white.
May I highlight that the term "goffal" is present in Zimbabwe yes, but it is a derogatory term used to address the less refined, less educated, free spirited, often economically disadvantaged colored (various mix) people - not associated with heritage as you'd mentioned.
Sadly, they do not receive socio economic support from the government which increases the cycle of poverty in this minority group who are often caught up in a life of minimum wage, alcohol abuse & early parenthood.
In fact, constitutionally all of us coloureds / mixed race - are considered aliens by our very own government. Zimbabwe ID cards have a section for ones' village of origin code but because we do not have "villages of origin" as an urban social group, our 'village code' is inputted as 00 /alien - meaning we are not officially recognised as authentic Zimbabweans.
Many do not qualify for 51% black businesses ownership rights, certain other benefits and of course equality. There were a handful of mixed individuals who attempted to highlight the necessity of official recognition but as per usual, such matters are considered trivial and results in round and round tail chasing.
We are often discriminating referred to by our fellow black Zimbabweans as "Mkaradi" or "mKeda" the latter being derived from Arcadia, one of 3 (Arcadia, Braeside & Cranborne - referred to as the ABCs) densely "goffal" populated areas in the capital city.
Too white to be black and too black to be white for us to be whole heartedly welcomed into local social groups.
It's sad really, as we are all human beings after all and have all endured the same mistreatment and annihilation by the colonizers.
Acknowledgement, Recognition & then Unity would solve a lot of these labels & discrimination.
@morton christie They annihilated our culture, our freedom, our self worth and many rights. They made us slaves. Do our ancestors have to be massacred and killed to warrant fair treatment from the government that has sentenced us to perpetuated poverty? Millions of people should not be swept under the rug with socioeconomic genocide.
Goffal is used as an insult in Mossel Baai .
I'm from Cape Town. A fairly accurate video - only slight correction to be made is that coloureds were still vastly more privileged than blacks under apartheid. The squatter camp of Khayalitsha displayed is a largely black area - coloureds were housed in apartment type slum buildings now prevalent in the area roughly known as the Cape Flats. Coloureds actually held the right to vote right up to the advent of Apartheid (they interestingly boycotted the election, which resulted in them being stripped of those rights, not to mention property - boycotting elections not a wise thing to do!) and weren't officially discriminated against prior to Apartheid. There is also widespread debate about whether or not there were Bantu (the Xhosa are a Bantu subgroup) people at the Cape at the time of the Dutch arrival in 1652. The Khoi and San are actually distinct people groups, the San being nomadic hunter-gatherers and the Khoi being pastoralists (almost wiped out by small pox with their modern descendants mostly found in Botswana). If any of this has piqued your curiosity, might I suggest a second attempt at the people groups of Africa - it is the world's second largest continent and would probably warrant being split up into its various regions!
jontheb123 Hey where can one find this history?
There are many books available on the early history of the Cape. I confess that I don't currently have the exact source material at my fingertips regarding the 1948 election. I don't currently live in South Africa and that information was in my class notes from varsity days. It's relatively recent history, so there isn't much available at present and there would obviously be those that would rather have that little snippet of history forgotten. Something to look out for when I go help my folks pack up next year.
There is reference to the coloured boycott of the 1948 election in this Wikipedia article, under the pre-apartheid heading: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloureds
jontheb123 they were treated better than indigenous unmixed south Africans
jontheb123 you full of shit
You made a mistake.
Khayalitsha is not a Coloured township; rather, it's a Black township.
Well spotted. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Very interesting. I'm a Kenyan whose maternal grandfather is Cape coloured. We know very little about him as he passed away when my mother was only 2 years old. We only know he was from Cape Town and had come to Kenya in the 1920s prospecting for gold or diamonds. He had married my grandmother and had several children but passed away in Kenya.
COME TO CAPE TOWN AND COME CHECK THE ARCHIVES IN ROELAND STREET...CAPE TOWN....IT DOESN'T MEAN BECAUSE YOU ARE BLACK YOU ARE NOT COLOURED....MY FATHER AND MY COUSINS ARE BLACK SKIN TOO AND MOST COLOUREDS IN CAPE TOWN
My Grandmothers family are Cape coloured and I have been tracing her ancestry through MyHeritage which connects you to Family Search where you can review loads of documentation from South Africa. She moved to the UK when she married my Grandad and we never met her family. My mum and I also did our ancestry dna which is useful to find relatives and gain access to their tree to see if what you find lines up. Both of my great grandparents were recorded as coloured and were of European, khoisan, southern and western Bantu and Indian decent. Good luck with your search😊
You must come visit CAPE TOWN...AND LET YOUR SOUL AND SPIRIT FIND HEALING AND LET YOUR SPIRIT FINDS IT RESTING PLACE...SO THAT YOU CAN FREELY BREATH........COLOURED DOES NOT MEAN..YOU ARE NOT BLACK SKINNNED,WHITE SKINNED,BROWN SKINNED OR LIGHT OR FAIR SKINNED.......IF YOU CAN CLAIM AND IT WAS TOLD TO YOU THAT YOU OF COLOURED DESCENT THEN YOU BELONGS TO US.....NOT EVEN A COLOURED PERSON CAN DENY YOU.....ITS IN YOUR BLOOD..ITS IN YOUR SOUL ITS IN YOUR SPIRIT ITS IN YOUR DNA.......COME AND MAKE THE CIRCLE BIGGER....CAPE TOWN AND THE WESTERN CAPE OR THE REST OF SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO YOU......MANDELA,RAMAPHOSA AND ITS BLACK PEOPLE ARE NATIVES OF THE LAND
Wow, thanks!! I am just seeing your post. I had posted that 5 years ago. Both my parents are mixed race. Mom is Cape Coloured and Kenyan African. Dad is Kenyan African and Welsh. I will have to travel to Cape Town.@@jimihendrix5308
@@jimihendrix5308I was brought up as a European Afrikaner and the became a Kiwi by choice. I now know that a Frenchman came to Africa on the late 1600’s, married his Batavian slave after setting her free and walla…….. I am not French, not Malaysian, or whatever. I am privileged to have rubbed shoulders with Africans, Basters, Coloureds, Maori, Europeans, Afrikaners, Souties (sorry I could not resist), Americans, Jewish people, Palestinians, Muslims, Indians, Sri Lankans, Chinese……….. Most were cool, others not so much.
I used to carry an identity document that allowed me to live life as a European in South Africa.
In NZ our census allows us to self identify against a list of identities, biological sex categories and genders, even other…… crazy world.
It is my understanding that Kayelitsha is mainly Xhosa, but I stand corrected.
As a Capetonian by birth I grew up with coloreds they were essential to Cape Town's economy and are brilliant craftsmen.
Thanks for a brilliant channel
You dutch
Paul Dogon stop lying they are suffering they are brilliant u talk about thugs criminals
@@williamkhumalo5325 not all coloureds are gangsters
William khumalo you are an big poes do you know that jo stuk naai
How sick and stupid u are William..if us coloureds had to believe things said about black ppl yooh let me not go to your idiotic level..This I will say thou...black folks must love themselfs..there realy ain't no need go belittle others.. Just love your selfs
khayelitcha is not a coloured township
Only a so called dumb ass Aryan European would do a spin on this subject of Cape Coloured He must go live section C in Khayelitsha for a while
@william Khims Bastards are of often used
I'm a cape coloured and you said that anyone who has a variety of genetic makeup can be considered coloured. But genetically everyone is mixed. Every person in the world has this race or that race inside of them. But majority of coloureds in south Africa look mixed. And yeas there are different variations of coloured but mojrity of us cant really be identified into the white, black, Asian or indian category. So, we've established our own race... A race that couldn't be identified, identified itself... And, personally as a coloured, I don't like being called mixed race, because everyone is mixed and I don't feel that coloured should be called mixed due to people finding it difficult to determine which "race" we fit into
Also "coloured" isn't just a race, it's a culture. We have our own customs, accents, slang, traditions and more... But yes, thank you for the informitive video
Mixed people were identified as coloureds by the Apartheid government. Blacks were identified as coloureds before and in some other countries they still do as they are referred as the people of colour. The apartheid government took it and gave it to the mixed people, because they didn't want to call them white which would give them access to many opportunities whites had, and also didn't want to call them black as it would increase their number as they were already the majority ... And at the beginning when people were identified as coloureds it wasn't only people mixed with black and white, but also Indians and other Asians
Define you being coloured
@@katlegotserema6720 Yes, that too. Yet, many coloured people look completely different from black south africans. As i said, there are different types of coloured people, some look a bit east asian, some look indian, some look a bit white even, and some look bantu, there are different variations of coloured people. When i said "established our own race" i didnt mean that we created the term coloured and categorised ourselves, i simply meant that we've reclaimed the word "coloured" and see it no longer as something to be ashamed of. Being multiracial shouldn't be something to discard simply because of inclusivity, we can still be included as part of The rainbow nation, because remember a rainbow wouldnt be a rainbow if all the colours were the same...
I agree with this post. The average can't be boxed into one particular race, the term Coloured just explain it so perfectly. Coloured because we come from many colours
@@katlegotserema6720 Yes but those Indians and Asians were absorbed into the broader Coloured community. Today your standard Indian or Chinese person won't be considered Coloured.
I learned my trade building with S.A. coulourds. Excelent trades men. Many friends. Greetings.
We do not pick the sperm or eggs, that made us. Private parts do not discriminate.
@Chesna Robyn Hill neh
loved your video dude! As a coloured woman living in Europe, its often difficult to explain to people what race I am as the concept of coloured or cape coloured in SA is not the same as the definition of coloured in the USA for instance and so when I say i'm mixed race which doesnt really cut it, they automatically assume I have a black father and white mother or vice versa. Usually i am assumed to be latina or mexican or portuguese or brazilian before I explain that I'm a coloured South African. I appreciate your appreciation for our very specific and unique set of DNA that does not really exist anywhere else in the world. You didnt get all of the facts right but your understanding of what coloureds are and how they came about is more or less . correct! Also just a side note; being coloured is not just about being part black or white or being mixed, theres a definite culture and way of living that somewhat formed the stereotype you see in the media today, however, similarly to how coloured people can vary vastly in appearance they also vary vastly in lifestyle, accent and social class these days, with alot of coloured people identifiying as white or black depending on how they look, we can adapt to either race and culture if we so choose.
yes u have a white mother and black mother
@@williamkhumalo5325 boi that kak gay
YES MY SISTER.....THESE BLACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA WANTS TO TELL WHO WE ARE
Really great video. Im coloured with Cape Malay, Indian and other Coloured ancestry from Northern and Eastern Cape. Just a correction Khyalitshae is a black township not a coloured area. Also Cape Coloureds have Indonesian and European ancestry along with Khoisan.
Thank you! The Cape Coloureds are probably the most interesting "ethnic group" in the world.
Die man praat kak
+Gladys Van Wyk hahah mevrou, hoe lekker lag ek nou :)
Maaifoedie De La Rey 😂Jah sy besluit sommer hy prat kak😂
Fadiel Benjamin
What does "other coloured" mean? What coloureds are those?
Thank you for creating this video because a lot of misconceptions exist about coloured South Africans. I had my DNA tested and it came back 48% African, 40% European and 12% Asian. Also keep in mind the European portion is not only Dutch because the Cape was the only major trade route to the east for all European countries until the Suez Canal was built.
666GGabriel of the 48% African my Khoi ancestry is 27.7%
666GGabriel My KhoiSan heritage is proudly Namaqua but I prefer to claim all of my ancestors not just the few that are politically convenient. That's why I self-identify as coloured because it gives me the space to be everything that I am... including KhoiSan
Nathan Cloete I had mine done aswell. I came back 22% African 33% Asian and 37% European and 8%Polynesian(no idea how I got this haha). Basically I'm a man of the world haha
J .dV Thats so cool! I think the polynesian came from the Dutch East Indies perhaps an island further east under Dutch control. Anything interesting under European? I got Iberian
Nathan Cloete Yeah well they include Philippines under South East Asia as well as Polynesia so it's probably from there. I mean I would say Scandinavian would be the only surprise but again the Germanic peoples have traces of Scandinavian and Denmark in them. Actually for Asia I got the 'Stan' area whatever it's called which is again a surprise because I'm not sure they came to S.A..
Glad you shared this with the world, think most Americans don’t know how Africa is diverse racially& experiences too. I often see they tend to extrapolate their experiences with mostly west & east Africans in the west onto rest of continent. Southern Africa is quite different from racial and cultural make up in many ways to other regions of continent. That is why South Africa is known as the rainbow nation; it’s one of the most racially& culturally diverse places in the world and the most diverse racially in Africa. Namibia is quite similar to SA as Namibia was part of SA till 1990. I’m South African, proudly so🇿🇦❤️ No I’m not Coloured though I get confused as one, it’s not my culture. I have major respect for Coloured ppl identifying as such and preserving their culture, just as long as they aren’t doing it to be anti-black
Thank you for understanding our perspective regarding preserving our identity and cultural experience. Coloured people were forced to become a community and they created their own cultural experience that is real and valid to them. Anti-blackness is most definitely an issue that my community needs to start addressing and actually begin to have a real conversation about. But there are many of us,like myself,in the coloured community who know and understand we have black ancestry and embrace that part of our identity,too. I have always felt that I can be connected to both parts of my identity. Both those parts of me that is coloured and black.
@@mssummer07Both Coloured.nd Black's have to embrace eachother even with our differences, just like Black's share same skin colour but different tribes nd tribalism, the only difference with coloureds nd Black's is skin colour although many many coloureds are dark skin, many with coarse hair too. Sit at the table get to know md understand eachother eachother, Give coloureds also land in the rural arears where they too can build for their mothers nd keep their goats nd cows.
I'm coloured and have to say you are quite correct I Did ancestry DNA test and the results were east European,Bantu,khoisan,south indian,east Asian.
Im a white dude from Joburg.. and coloureds are awesome! They have a distinct culture irrespective of shade or language or even location... (Although things are different on the flats then they are up here in Eldo's).. and they got the hottest girls by far! Aweh.
Well, when the girls have teeth, that is! :-)
Kevin Blackandwhite they don't have culture
@@williamkhumalo5325 if we don't have culture why do you all aspire to be like us keep your negativity to yourself and stop talking crap about our people cause you guys are just immigrants period.
He's just jealous of you guys don't mind him but im a black guy and I have to sayColoureds are sweet tho fun to hang out with got the hottest girls in Joburg CPT to Durban and are funny too
You're right about the girls being hot. My God they are the best looking girls in the world.
Great video. What is strange is that in the UK the term coloured is considered derogatory for some reason, so whenever I talk about Cape Coloureds I have to explain that it is an entirely acceptable name
Funny part is that the British came up with the term coulored
In Britain the term coloured is now only used to describe South African Coloureds. The word for anyone not white in Britain is now BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic)
The British came up with the term coloured.
You addressed this topic beautifully. Nice work!
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You are spot on, i am a goffal from Zimbabwe and proud. As we call our selves, goffal owns.
Hey I really appreciate this video. Thank you for sharing our beautiful culture in such a humble manner.
Thanx for this Masaman, I'm Cape Coloured as well, Being from the Cape Malay group. Ever since last year I wanted to look into my Ancestry. From my mom's side, my Grandmother come from very Khoisan and Dutch background(she grew up in rural Cape Town) and Grandfather come from and Indian and Malay or Indonesian background, but looks very Indian(He grew up in the city) on my Dad's side Grandmother come from a very Malay or Indonesian as well as Dutch or German background(many of family close relatives are fare in skin blou, green or hazel eyes) and my Grandfather, I'm a bit confused. It's said by my dad that our African Ancestry could be between from Somalia or Tanzania, I also tracked down my last name in a region in the Philippines, so that possibly be a linked. One of my colleague at work ask me if I have maxican relatives😂😂 because curly long hair. Some people thought I'm from Sri Lanka😂😂. In my opinion, if another country classify me as black such as the US, I'm Cool with that, I'm so Big on the race thing(Not throwing my culture away though. Peace out Let's embrace each other guys✌✌👍👍😉😉
@william Khims So disrespectful. You cannot dictate how someone else identify
I am a colored South African. I also have zero South African ethnicity which took me by huge surprise after taking a DNA test to have an understanding of my ethnicity. It’s been a story coming on for a very long time that Cape Coloureds are from Dutch and Khoi San origins. I truly believed that this was my heritage. The pretty much half of my ethnicity which is European, is categorized as Irish, Welsh and Scottish. I am also Balkan and Scandinavian. My African heritage and ethnicity is from central east Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia) and South Asia which tells me my family were part of the slave trade and they somehow migrated down south to South Africa. It still puzzles me that I have no South African heritage. Why do I write this? For my other colored brothers and sisters, get your DNA tested. Let’s not assume what we’ve been told. We’ve been fed a lot of stories let’s find our own truth and be proud of it. Let’s be proud of who we are. Much love and light. Renee
Can someone please share this with mainstream Americans and Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah is very misleading
@@frankie7529 why is he misleading? Right now I am reading his book. Came here to get more information.
@@ellamay8057 he is misleading because he describes himself as a coloured, and whilst that is true in one sense, he really is a Zulu. He was raised in a Zulu family by his Zulu mother. He father was not even South African. He doesn't have any family links to the Coloured community or to the white South African community. He might be clearer about this in his book but in interviews I have found him misleading.
@@frankie7529 Thanks. Yes. In his book he describes how he lived for some time in a coloured neighborhood but was not accepted because he identified himself as black.
I had no idea about "Coloured " in SA and the cultural aspect of it, I researched a little bit. Very interesting.
By the way Trevor Noal is Xhosa.
@@ellamay8057 sorry yes Xhosa not Zulu. Trevor Noah is only coloured through how he looks. I guess it's the same way in which Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are black. They don't have any black American grandparents but they look "black".
Haha, This video is so amazing. I am a coloured living in Cale Town...As you said there are different breeds of coloured. Some are very fair roned skines, and have softer straighter hair, and of course there are those who have more darker skin tones with more ethnic hair. However our community of diverse coloureds are one of the most intreting you’ll find in South Africa. My sister was travelin in London a few years back, and everyone thought she was Spanish...I’m verry glad you posted this video so people can be more aware of our history.
Great to hear you mentioned the Rehoboth Basters as well. Do note that many of the baster then mixed again with the Germans, whish is why so many have german surnames like Rittmann, Krohne, Morgenroth, Baumgarten, etc.
My is van schalkwyk even though im not a yt german
@@azrael-ng1rf My surname is "Abrahams" even tho I'm not from the middle east.
Im a coloured from cape town en my van is Links. I was in hospital and a german student told me that my name means left in german and i told her that it means left in afrikaans too. That made me wanna look up my ancestry even more
WOW! I was SO not expecting this video to be done by an American!.... Very well done!P.s. I'm a 'cape coloured', although I've sometimes been mistaken for hispanic and even white! Lol (My husband is though) :-)
Megan Nicole Green
Yo husband is what?
Yea what is he ?
It all depends on the amount of European influences in your Dna. In the old regime a third of the current population white population are actually reclassified colourds . The Cape colourd also have Malaysian side due to Malaysian slave and Portuguese sailors . And of course dutch. Just some more interesting facts.
Coloureds carry Afrikaans surnames. Does that make them less khois? It's about where you grow up... There are still San and Khois who speak Nu around Africa...Afrikaans doesn't have even one click , yet almost every coloured is a Khoi in the Cape. Xhosa people have, there's a chance of them being Khois or San too. No Khoi or San can claim to be 100 Khoisans especially in South Africa.
@@marinusdupreez161 the Malaysians are the last coloured slaves arived 1800 and the rest of us coloureds had arived 1480 with the Portuguese slaveships about 170 mix slaves that is Muslims ; Indians ; Madagascar mix with San and Korana slaves ; and in 1500 the Dutch and British took over and 1600 all the nations of Asia and Muslims ; West Africa ; Mauritius Zanzibar and East Africa arived on slaveships and the slaves were given the name coloureds at Capetown Slave Lodge Cape Castle Of Good Hope ; These two buildings is where history fully display 1838 the British abolished the slavery. The name coloured does not include Xhozas and Zulus ; we coloureds do not descend from Xhozas and Zulus. The Dutch did raped the slave woman that is wy European DNA. The first slaves from the African continent to America is the Beta Isrealites in Ethiopia between 1300 and 1400
i’m a native coloured south african. you’re native American and you have more knowledge on coloureds than most coloureds do. respect bro
Yes, we 'coloureds' are described as an ethnic group. Its very difficult to describe or define us in any other way. Coloured is just a broad umbrella term to define people of varying mixed origins - what else could they call us? We coloured by our Ancestral mix, and then coloured by the culture we have cultivated over the past 400 years. One cannot be called coloured because you are biracial. No one accepts responsibility for us, we are just here. In South Africa only two races count and dominate - white or black. We kind of there somewhere in the background - you know that illegitimate kid that lives with his mother in another town that everyone knows about but no one cares about and will have no part of the family inheritance. I'm sure it's like that all over the world, where there is mixing - we may be unique in culture but this situation is not unique wherever men travelled and needed to refresh or offload. We have a patched up culture that people try to make the best out of. That's what the Cape Flats consists of. It's not all bad, people make it out and some make it big - the rest live in council housing, wendy houses, or over crowded homes. Shacks is a more recent housing option, but not the housing option of choice and not that common. Look up Cape Flats. True that even sadly by SA standards we are mainly known for our alcohol abuse, gangsterism, organised crime, idiosyncrasies, 'coloured accents' and for our sense of humour. We generally are not really taken seriously. We are and can be so much more than the above but sadly this is how we are stereotyped in the media. We have yet to learn how to turn this mess we've been dealt with into a powerful message of hope and inspiration. These days there is far far far less mixing of coloureds with whites, and even far less with blacks due to area segregation and basic economics. However far more whites and blacks are now in interracial relationships than ever before. It's interesting to see where this may go? What really is the difference between a biracial child and a coloured child?Only culture? It's a slippery slope to define, but interesting to watch. We are diverse, but our situation is not unique - but it was nice to see someone talk about us, kind of know who we are.
What a nice read!
Gill Campbell u must come to understand the term coloured was imposed by white people on multi racial people....during apartheid era.....to seperate people....hence the culture of coloureds started, but before apartheid we were living together black and coloured
Am impressed with your writing, but using the term coloured is what makes them alcoholic they feel that is their culture. If more talk the way u come out maybe
Senhor Gil CAMPBELL,
O senhor não está na América !
O senhor está na África !
( A sua língua materna é o "Afrikaans" e NÃO é o Zulu ou o Cosa ou outra língua Bantu ).
Entendeu ?
@@mbumwaeiluya8680please get an education ...your reply is a joke
My man called us "Pristine" thanks brother
I'm also a so called Cape coloured..l'm mixture of Dutch and Indian and whatever else that added to me being who l am today..Why not show photos of how most of our people looks like and there living conditions besides gangsters and shacks.And beside that's a black township.We coloured people are a beautiful and interesting race.From dark to light shades..green eyes , blue and brown eyes and hair from straight to being kinky.it all depends on your genes
rachel brown because he probably has mo black. Being from Cape Town and a coloured he most certainly has Khoisan blood though
Green eyes??? I mean I know y'all ain't khoisans but why y'all wanting to look like white people so bad. Self hate is real outtchea.
@@lwazimorris4973 yes green eyes
And no. It doesn't mean wanting to look white
You get coloureds who are dark skinned that'll have green eyes, blue eyes, hazel and all sorts of mixtures. Just like light skinned coloureds. (This I'm now saying from personal experience) If you go to any coloured community in Cape Town you'll see this
You got this perfectly! Just to add that khoisan is actually a collective when we talk about both khoi and san as they are different. I come from khoi like most cape coloureds. In the northern cape is where coloureds are most San because the san are the hunters who were and are mostly from that part of the country and khoi were more on the coast living from the sea and ofcourse more gatherers than hunters.
I love the much clearer picture you depict here because most people even south africans think we come from white and black and it is much more complicated than that. We have our own "suburbs" with our own language that does not just develop out of the blue when you come from black and white. We are more khoi than anything else. We are native to south africa. Our ancestors were the only people the settlers found here.
Your explanation is deeply appreciated coming from someone is is not even South African. Thanks dude.
Y'all are mostly as mix of European and Asians. Koi koi and San are native Africans. Y'all are not native. Just a mixture of invaders, Asian slaves and natives.
@EstaJeanette-nk7fj true. If we are not native to south africa, where are we native from? Are you then saying that we are not the descendants of the khoi and san?
@4clue y'all are descendants of majority Europeans and Asians. Stop clinging to only khoi khoi and San. Saying that y'all are khoi khoi and San is deleting the actual khoi khoi and San people. Y'all are just mixed. Khoi khoi and San are not mixed. They are 100 percent native Africans.
@EstaJeanette-nk7fj so you are just avoiding the questions. Just talking a lot doesn’t make you intelligent. You don't know me from anywhere. I'm griekwa and know my history very well. If you don't have anything factual or intelligent to day just keep quiet and focus on your race and culture not mine.
@@4clue khoi khoi and San are part of my race. They are native black Africans like me. I am focusing on them. Y'all are not part of us( native black Africans).
Hi i have to give you a high five on this video. I am a so called colored lady from South Africa (with too much ancestry to even mention lol. You have really given a fresh and exciting positive perspective and opinion on my diverse family. Much respect to you! Keep it up.
Your video was excellent regardless of the fact that some of the information may not be entirely correct. My ethnic group or race is irrelevant as far as my skin color is concerned. I was born in South Africa and my ancestry dates back to the time of Van Riebeeck. Thus said, with the interbreeding of the different races, it is not for some political party to say where the white people, colored people or any other race in South Africa today belongs, besides their land of birth. Like yourself, I love the people of this land. It is just so sad that the ignorant and uneducated masses are swept up to believe they will get the wealth of the privileged few. When South Africa became a free democracy, it became free for anyone to work and achieve their own wealth. Anyone believing that he or she will be given anything is sadly misled and used to do the atrocities of evil and corrupt politicians. The colored of South Africa are beautiful people with a sense of humor second to none. So are the Afrikaners and equally so are the bantu people. Sadly there are bad elements in all of these groups that are rising to prominence with real scary idealogies..
One thing you must note is that coloured does not necessarily mean indigenous South African. A lot of these people think they are one with the khoi. The khoi san people don't even want to be labeled as coloured. Also, the khoi people have a very distinct look which is not the typical indo/malay look of cape coloureds.
There isn't anymore real khoi people anymore .Coloureds are very complex .I would try to describe us but it would be super inaccurate .If our racist government doesn't mind a D.N.A. test we could find out where ?What?Who?
Mixing
No black or white have a right to talk ...bcoz blacks are also mixed but do they talk about that fact? No! So just f#$kO!!
@@mische6668 most bantus in South Africa are not mixed get your facts straight jy is Mal my broer
I've gotten asked if I'm Latino and Asian
I really enjoyed your video. It's very informative and not at all divisive. I also visited the states and was often mistaken to be Mexican and sometimes Asian. I am of the Cape Malay sub group. Keep up the great work you do👍
So I am from Namibia. And form part of the Rehoboth Basters. Got to give it to you, you did well. Your research is spot on.
An interesting and pretty accurate analysis. As a Capetonian, looking at you, I would not think you are Cape Coloured. I'd say you are of our very prominent Portuguese community with some Coloured mixing a bit of distance back in time.
It is true that until the 80s, coloureds were en masse segregated (as were Indians and the various Bantu tribes). That said, I had neighbours who were coloured. Like anything,, economics plays its part.
The shanty town images you display at the 5 minute mark are rarely inhabited by coloureds. Those are typically first generation into the city from the Bantu tribal lands and other countries to our north (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, DRC, Nigeria).
Coloureds tend to live in ordinary brick houses in formal suburbs with normal streets, etc.
Khayeltisha (5m18s) will barely have a Coloured in it... that is a Bantu suburb and a coloured venturing in there would be taking her/his life into his/her hands.
The gang members you show have all been to prison (their jail chop) and will be members of the numbers gangs (26s, 27s, 28s). They are from Mannenberg, Elsie's river, Lavender Hill. The gangs are not new - Look up "Numbers Gangs" or a fascinating study back to the 1920s to see how massive and organized they are - I'm talking 600,000 members in the Western Cape alone.
They are into meth and tend to fight (like war-zone fight) among themselves... 100 deaths in their areas over the weekend is not unusual.
As you pointed out, Coloureds have massively differing genes and cultures. Those of the Cape Flats / ganglands are one extreme expression. but there are equally garden suburbs too with prosperous families, and then there are those much more closely associated with the original Khoi-khoi and san who are laborers living on the farms into the Northern Cape.
Then there are the communities with stronger heritage from Malaysia (brought over by the VOC as slaves from the 1600s onward) - the Malays. They are Moslem and an entire culture and set on their own (who do mix) but keep to their culture.
And, in the modern world, coloureds are entirely integrated into every other suburb and strata of society - my neighbours (I live in a very wealthy area), my kids' friends, our schools... completely integrated and indistinguishable from anyone else making progress in life.
Oh, the Afrikaaners - of all people - fully understand the Coloureds and their dialects. Agitators aside, we actually all get on rather well given our diversity.
Well set out comment, en akkuraat👍
He wouldn't look out of place on the Cape flats. He looks like alot of my family members. I don't know what the average Portuguese person looks like but that wouldn't have been my first thought
Thank you so much for the representation. I'm a South African Coloured. 👍
damn this really opened my eyes, I could literally be Japanese and I wouldn't even know it.
I was on an identity trip , results of my DNA , 28 percent South Indian , 24 percent Khoi San , 10 percent Scandinavian , small percentages , Indonesia , Malaysia , Phillipines, Indonesia ,Jewish , and Balkan. From 3 continents , a citizen of the world .
Where did you have your test done. ? And how much did it cost
Hi, I saw your post...4 years old! Could you share which DNA test you took please? You have a great mix!!
I'm a first generation Coloured with a white Dutch father and a black Shona Zimbabwean mother. Lol South African Coloureds don't accept me as Coloured because I'm not part of the culture. They insist I call myself "mixed race" (which is literally the same thing). Zimbabwean "Goffal" Coloureds do accept me though. Being from Zimbabwe and having family there, there isn't that much racism from ordinary people, it's mainly the government.
Props on the video btw!
You arent coloured, coloured is used to describe the modern ancestors of the indeginious khoisan people, thats why they dont accept you bcuz coloured people dont consider themselves mixed race because most arent
Teawan Joseph Did you watch the video? Coloureds are by definition mixed race. There is very little pure Khoisan bloodline in SA. Most Coloureds have Dutch, Khoisan and Malay admixture or British and Zulu. In any case I came in to contact with the term in Zimbabwe first where the term is applied to me no questions asked.
My dad is cape malay...mom is dutch and khoi mix. I am coloured...proudly so.😆
You not coloured, maybe racially yeah. It's backgrounds and where you grow up that determines it too, being coloured is a culture in it's own brah 🙆
You're not coloured.
I just came across this video and I'm surprised that this topic received international attention.The majority of what's been said is surprisingly well-informed. Many of the comments are a bit defensive and misguided but I like the conversation that it has sparked. I am a Coloured, unapologetically so, and I honour my Khoe and San heritage (something many Coloureds can't or won't do) because it has shaped the majority of my family's customs and traditions. Numerous governments, ethnic groups and individuals have sought (and still seek) to deny our significance in an effort to avoid giving us equal recognition and thereby portray themselves as superior. For a bit of clarity to those who aren't coloured and might come across this - we are a people in our own right, not a mixture of some borrowed genetic and cultural traits. Not a side-effect or by-product as some would have us believe, but people with a proud heritage and unique character. We share many things with many others but we are our own.
I am a cape colored, you dont see us as a ethnic group, well we not only defined by RACE, but we have a way of living, that makes us an ethnic group, and we see each other as the same people, I guess only you people dont... And this pic you have here of gangsters, does not look like a Cape Flats Gang but an American one, Salvatrucha by the signs they use, oh for all those comments with regards to race, scientifically race does not exist and is a man made construct.. come on - you share 90% of your DNA with a banana ... 1% of your total genes are used to check for ethnicity thats how similar Humans are, your dear pigments depends on your environment and is there to protect you not segregate you from the rest of humanity....
Gladys Van Wyk no front teeth out!
LilliesWasted Everywhere he s a mixed race too.
a way of living equates to culture not ethnic group.
LilliesWasted Everywhere he's 1/4 black, so what the fuck are you going on about
LilliesWasted Everywhere Do you even watch the dudes video or just here to look at the comments and post your bias views?
As a Cape Coloured, I say thank you for this video. Though I knew about the South African Coloured history I wasn't all too aware of the Goffals of the former Rhodesia, Rehoboth Basters of Namibia. Thank you for this informative video.
From what I have to come to know about my family is that we are descendants of many cultures and I have come to accept it.
Those are hispanic MS13 members in that gang photo. Not south african cape coloureds
The 2 gang members shown before the ms13 gang members were cape coloured gangsters. Either members of the 26, 27 or 28's gang. They have facial marks/imperfections that suggests they probably are what we know as "button koppe" (a form of quailudes still used in SA known as mandrax).
no those are Cape coloreds there is a documentary on them speaking Afrikaans and Tsotsitaal
Wow your the first person I have heard speaking about racism towards c oloureds in Zimbabwe your facts are spot on
ExSA from the Cape. I used to sit on train stations and have fun guessing the ancestry of fellow commuters. I long came to the conclusion that we had the most diverse ancestry on the planet, the only missing type seemed to be South American. Mentioned this thought to a coloured lady, and she told me that her family was ex-St Helena, but originally from South American. The most mixed group of all.
Why do they always say Cape Town coloured people ... that just make people believe there are no coloured people in other places in South Africa 🤐
Because Cape coloured is a specific group of coloured. Mostly a mix between the Malay slaves imported by Dutch slave owners, Europeans, and the indigenous Khoisan people. Our ancestors all lived around the Cape and spoke Dutch. Nowadays we speak Afrikaans (or afrikaaps).
Wow! Enlightening. I am a Coloured originally from Durban. Thank you!
originally from rape
Probably
nigga thats wayyy back bro😂 that insult don't work bruh
Here I am, as Coloured as you get. Its quite interesting that people from thousands of miles understand us and that we have our own culture whether ee Muslim or Christian our colouredness bind us. The black South Africans cant get this. It is mind boggling for them. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, my Family consists of Xhosas, whites, KhoiSan, Indian and even Chinese.
Awe masam I'm a coloured from south Africa and a freelance journalist, your research is impressive, but there are way more for you to know about coloured ppl, feel free
Very informative video. However I live in Durban SA, and I can tell you interracial marriage is not at an "all-time high." Most interracial marriages occur between foreigners such as Americans and Europeans that come here. Most Afrikaners want to marry an Afrikaner. I've seen mixing between whites and indians here though, but that is a recent trend.
Hm, interesting. I wonder what someone who is half-Indian, half-White would identify as? White? Indian? or Coloured?
Masaman it would still be a coloured. Basically it's anyone with mixed ancestry. Different families tend to have completely different ancestry.
My uncles mother is Portuguese and came with her family over during the apartheid time. The father was classified as white as he had a light skin and the mother and children were classified as coloured as they had a olive skin tone. She only saw her father on his death bed. These stories are very common amongst the coloured community.
Judy Kester half Indian half white people are still comsidered coloured in SA
Masaman I know a girl who is half black half Indian. She identifies as "mixed race" as opposed to Coloured
Coloured people are essentially of Khoi-San descent, so yeah she is mixed raced, not coloured
I am a proud Coloured in Cape Town
I'm a mixed person in South Africa, but I'm not from the Cape; my ancestors and family are from KZN. I am a mix of South Indian (ancestry from indentured labourers brought to Durban by British), Zulu (self-explanatory as it's KZN) and Western Europe (Dutch from Pietermaritzberg). My family and I do not speak Afrikaans the way Cape Coloureds do; instead, English is our home/first language. However, I _can_ speak fluent Afrikaans as it is taught as a First Additional Language at many schools in South Africa, including mine. However, my maternal grandparents (born and raised in KZN) did not learn Afrikaans at school and were instead more at ease speaking isiZulu as a second language (English was still the family's home/first language then). Anyway, I'm glad you also mentioned the mixed people in South Africa outside of the Cape Coloured groups because there are some key differences between us. My extended family is mostly Christian, with heavier Indian ancestry and we practice South-African-Indian traditions. Others recognize us more as _culturally_ South African Indian as opposed to South African Coloured, despite being mixed. This is probably because most of the family was born and raised in Durban and many still live there.
I'm from South Africa I'm coloured myself of White, African, and Malay but I see myself as black and proud of that
Why black?
What BLACK tribe. Please specify Zulu Shona Venda Swana Sotho etc also produce your birth certificate of both of your parents
@@moegamatgielmie9629 the coloured tribe. In my opinion and view the coloured people are an ethnicity and race is black(I'm coloured as well). My race black and my tribe is coloured. I don't use it for any official documentation because other people would say I'm doing it for convenience but internally I believe I am black
@@RedReignAuto your statement is wrong, it's seen as a race more than an ethnicity, because a white man marries a black woman today in South Africa, the kid is seen as colored, even though he/she knows nothing about the culture or tribe, so it's seen more as a race my friend
I'm coloured too of Malay and Griqua ancestry and look more Indian like many of my family members. There's a lot of distrust between Coloureds and other groups. So I just see myself as Coloured, not black, not mixed and definitely not white. You can identify however you like
Thank for mentioning us from Rehoboth ❤️
Awesome information! I enjoyed the information you provided. Keep up the work.
Cree X Thank you! New video coming over the Horn of Africa and the Sahel coming soon.
Looking forward to it.
There are beautiful Miss SA who are coloured. This is my guess of their mix:
Ellen Peters - black/white/malay
Amy Kleinhans - white/khoisan/black
Bernelee Daniell - white/malay
Jo-Ann Strauss - white/black/khoisan
Tansey Coetzee, Tatum Keshwar - both are indian/white/black
Tamaryn Green - white/black/khoisan/indian
Bernelee Daniel shows more Khoisan ancestry than Amy and its highly likely that Amy has Malay as well. Infact all of them probably has some White, black, khoisan, Indian and Malay, which is typical for Cape Coloureds
Yeah I'm pretty sure all of them has all of that admixture but in different doses. Ugh I love Dr Tamaryn Green. So beautiful
Khoisan are black.
🤣🤣🤣 Khoisan is black
@@tigerzulu759 i have heard Khoisan/coloured people refuse to be called “black” or “bantu”. When asked ti describe their skin color, they would reply “yellowish”
Well done my boy. that was a brief history of colouredom. Just one thing @5:00 you used and image and "township" which is largely black. A colored township would be Mitchells Plain for example. Shout out to Strandfontein. Im intrigued now, i will be rooting around your parts of the innanets for a while. From a Cape Town/coloured girl.
This guy knows our ancestry better than I know it myself !! Lol 😂 . I’m from Cape Town and half Asian and half cape coloured .
Are you not a Khoisan
@@moegamatgielmie9629 the half coloured will probably include khoisan.
I thank you so so much for this! I was just told BY A BLACK MAN that there is no such thing as a coloured there’s only while black and Asian’s
It’s crazy!! We are a community we are beautiful and we are the zests of South Africa ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Sorry there is nothing called coloured,it is not a race.
@@akanni2889 There is no race called black or white either. Asian is a nationality. All these things are social constructs and because they are social constructs, the Coloured race does exist.
@@careyqueen3606 and how is color a race?
And are all color the same?
@@akanni2889 Well if race is socially constructed then we can also create our own race group. Coloureds all actually have the ancestral links but just to varying degrees. So all of us have some Asian, European, Khoi etc just to varying amounts, depending on the person.
@@careyqueen3606 are all colored the same?
Thank you for posting this. It is very informative and professionally done. You've saved me some work putting together a video on the same topic! :-) It recently came up on many of my cousins' and my DNA results that we have traces of Bantu and I was able to trace this through my grandfather's grandfather, a Cape Malay who worked for the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij (Dutch-SA Railway).
I'm from cape town south Africa I'm referred to as coloured and yes you look the part as well
If he khoisan as well?? Just being curious! , is that guy on that video look like any close from khoisans in Namibia?? Never mind...
OMG thank you so much, you are a darling to be adored. What a wonderfully concise and informingly accurate summary video💯💯
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I have a special place in my heart for multi racial people as well. I'm pretty damn mixed myself.
I'm glad you like and find us coloureds interesting 👍
I am South African and I would personally consider myself coloured but society see me as English European South African. I believe most south africans are very mixed. For example me my paternal grandfather mixed scottish and 'afrikaans' raised english, grandmother Natal English, maternal grandfather from 'Chicago Irish American' cross 'british south african' English and grandmother Lithuanian Jew cross 'coloured st. Helenan' of east asian, english and zulu descent but 'English'. However my maternal grandmother may have had a tswana or baster father which may have been hushed due to such such a stigma in the 1920s/30s. Besides for my brother my closest living relative my nephew is greek cross cape malay coloured maternity and classified as 'coloured' though he is as 'white' as I however with a heavy 'cape malay coloured' accent and we are 'English' South Africans. But I am classified as English South African while 50% of extended family are 'Afrikaans'
Im a Cape Coloured, I didnt even know this about myself, Thank you for the video.
Khayelitsha is NOT a coloured area,there are mostly black poor settlers.I know that because I live in Capetown.
I’m not coloured but my grandma is. I found this video super cool, so thanks my guy
Interesting videos. I learned some new information. Stay learning.
Dox Fill Glad you enjoyed!
Hey my dear young friend, howzit ekse?
I'm so glad that you didn't forget about us Goffals from Zim ekse brah, ha!
Ya, so my man where are you from Hommie?
Oh shit, your research is on point man, I’m a rehoboth baster.
We are proud being Basters thus no one can use it against us cause we carry the name with pride.
@@josephbertolini1400 who is a famous Baster? Are any of the Namibia rugby players Basters?
I'm a coloured, but i am German/Malaysian + Dutch/Indian..Thanks for explaining this to the world.
There isn't a white family , whose ancestors have been in South Africa for 200 years or more who hasn't got coloured ancestry. Its written in their faces. The great mistake of the Afrikaners was ( is ) to attempt to deny this. By the way the pictures you show are black African squatter camps and not coloured dwellings. Under Apartheid , the definition of a white person, was "some one who is generally accepted as a white person, and obviously looks like a white person." It was never deemed to be some one of pure European descent.. see how cunning they were.
Robert Williams True my aunt was given a "white card" family of 8.. all different shades.
And How would they get this in their DNA, certainly not everyone has had children with cape coloureds or Bantu.
Awe Brother i'm a Kallit from the Cape of Goodhope, for me personally i believe that we claimed that name of coloured as our own for a reason greater than race itself, you see my brother, if you identify as a coloured, no matter how you look and when I say that I don't look at you for the colour of your skin but for your roots of your spirit that's been carved into this physical existence throughout time and civilizations that came before, the ideology behind being a coloured in my mind is to bring peace among eachother regardless of the colour of your skin, identifying as a coloured just means that you accept and love your brothers, sisters, friends and their families no matter if they lighter than you or darker than you. Brother i will say it like it is cause that is what a Kallit will dala, We were all black once before and we were also white before, these are all conditions of climate, time and certain events that happen to the earth that made our species have to adapt to certain environments and the conditions those said environments come with, so why are we still identifying as a colour like black and white when the truth is we are all one species of a creation of Our Creator the colour doesn't make you less than or more than the other person, we are all made equally to achieve enlightenment in this life we chose to be born into, the fact that when you realize you were meant to do something with this life you were given is already one part of yourself trying to find out who you are, we are more than this physical being so the colour doesn't matter, we are a Spirit and this my brother is The Spirit of Truth.
We are all African but don't be proud of that, be grateful. Africa is the birthplace of The Will To Be Free. Coloured is my Identity and African is my Roots but my Spirit, My Spirit shines Forever beyond this Earth and is Everlasting, I accept that when I say i'm a Coloured, I accept that I am the Evolution of The Spirit of Truth. my people kill eachother because of the enemy but the time of a Revolution of True Peace is About To Occur and it will happen during this most chaotic time in This Civilization. Identify as Coloured no matter what descent you are, my people will accept you just for saying you feel like you a Kallit. Safe Brother
O shadowz waarheid my bru 👏👏👏👏👏
☺Proudly coloured from Knysna Western Cape South Africa💕
If so what does "jou poes"mean?
Great job you really did your research and as a South African i'm impressed
You made me proud to be a cape coloured
Great video! Love it, finally people are spreading what we already knew