In conversation with authors of "Coloured"

September is Heritage Month and we delve into the history of coloured people. Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel have penned a book titled 'Coloured'. It looks into the life of coloured people as descendants of indigenous Africans, their identity and how history has shaped their race. #dstv403

[@rubinnaidoo2829]

Brilliant work ladies, a much needed explanation that will serve the younger generations to understand a topic that is not often spoken about in depth.

[@cheznone9296]

Having listened to this broadcast it brings to mind the whole culture issue. The white culture also has a special place when talking about things that go into making the white people and how they behave, and how their food is also unique. My mother was a coloured woman but we always grew up as white. My father was first generation South African whose father came from Ireland. My mother was always on tenterhooks if we brought home a person whose skin was a little dark. She was terrified that the tar brush would manifest in our children so she was adamant about being white. We never knew about her background because she was adopted, her father who adopted her, brought her home in a shoe box from
Adderly in Cape Town, he told my grandmother that he was the father, they had nothing for the baby so she was put into the bottom drawer of a chest and layers of clothes. They had a Primus stove and a mattress on the floor. My adopted grandmother and grandfather were poor whites. Obviously things got better as time went on, but my mother was unaware of her coloured status, she even withheld it from us kids, we all came out with blue eyes and blond hair so it wasn’t hard for her to keep up the pretence, the only thing that gave it away was her krus hare, she also had blue eyes and very light skin. So ja we were poor, but we made the best of what we had, now I’m old and dying it makes absolutely no difference we loved our mother and father, they did their best, and we’ve done our best. I think as I look back not one of us did any harm to another person. I’m proud of being a SA and of my kinship to whom ever we belong. At the end of the day I was born in SA and am therefore a SA and it’s time to get on with the job of living in a country that can once again be a place to be so proud of. It’s about the children now what are we giving them? What are we going to tell them when all that’s left is ashes? Lift up your feet and don’t allow this country to be destroyed by greedy people in high places.

[@truth-Hurts375]

Beautifull story....

[@savannahjames-ke9sx]

Wow beautiful ladies excellent interview

[@elroyswarts2337]

I LOVE THESE TWO WOMEN. I wish they could debate the celebrity wannabe Samantha Jansen and put her in her place. She ridicules coloured people and throws our people under the bus to appease Pan Africanist afrocentric black supremacists and coloured hating black people. Some, if not most of us are mixed with blackness so blackness is very much a part of our family tree. That DOES NOT MEAN that we have to one drop rule ourselves out of existence and deny the fullness of our identity. I am COLOURED AND PROUD to be. Samantha Jansen wants to become a celebrity off of trashing our people. These 2 women give me hope for the future of COLOURED PEOPLE. Their VOICES NEED TO BE ELEVATED.

[@ichoosegodfromnowon847]

Mixed race

[@truth-Hurts375]

Stop talking Rubbish....most collards are NOT mixed race.Go back to school...Domkop!!! White people are more mixed race than most collards...of what mix does the Koi San came from??? And thats just one example...do your own research....Domkop !!!!