Coloureds History (South Africa)

THE LOST STORY (SOUTH AFRICA)

During apartheid, the term "Coloured" was used to refer to group of people generally considered to be of mixed race origin. Coloured people, throughout the course of South African history, have been regarded as neither white nor black, and their ability to exercise their political rights have been dependent on the attitude of government at the time.

When I was a kid I always wondered where in the world do coloured people come from. Well! I finally have that answer. And believe me the answer was hard to get.

 Ask anyone is South Africa they’ll tell you coloureds come from a black person mixing with a white person. But that makes no sense. It was illegal for blacks and whites to have any intimate relationship at that time. (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949: Prohibited marriages between white people and people of other races. Between 1946 and the enactment of this law, only 75 mixed marriages had been recorded, compared with some 28,000 white marriages. Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950; amended in 1957 (Act 23): Prohibited adultery, attempted adultery or related immoral acts (extra-marital sex) between white and black people.). Plus coloured fill almost 8.9% (4 615 401 In 2011. Stereotypes has it coloured have sex a lot so the numbers should have increased) of South Africa’s population, that’s as much as whites. You telling me during apartheid almost all the whites/Afrikaaners were having sexual relations with a blacks?

Science is not having the correct answer, but asking the correct questions. The question I asked was, where coloureds came from.

Well coloured have one amazing history, that I’d love to share to my visitors and South Africa.

Well our story has to start with a group of people called Khosians. "Khoisan" (/ˈkɔɪsɑːn/; also spelled Khoesaan, Khoesan or Khoe–San) is a unifying name for two groups of peoples of Southern Africa, who share physical and putative linguistic characteristics distinct from the Bantu majority of the region.[2] Culturally, the Khoisan are divided into the foraging San, or Bushmen, and the pastoral Khoi, or more specifically Khoikhoi,[3] previously known as Hottentots.

The San include the indigenous inhabitants of Southern Africa before the southward Bantu migrations from Central and East Africa reached their region, which led to the Bantu populations displacing the Khoi and San to become the predominant inhabitants of Southern Africa. Scholars have debated whether the Khoi had a separate origin from the San. But we won’t go into depth. On that.

Man. Xhosa and Zulu are practically South Africa’s core founders. We can’t debate on that hy.

Xhosa culture

In around 2300 BP (Before Present), hunter-gatherers called the San acquired domestic stock in what is now modern day Botswana. Their population grew, and spread throughout the Western half of South Africa. They were the first pastoralists in southern Africa, and called themselves Khoikhoi (or Khoe), which means 'men of men' or 'the real people'. This name was chosen to show pride in their past and culture. The Khoikhoi brought a new way of life to South Africa and to the San, who were hunter-gatherers as opposed to herders. This led to misunderstandings and subsequent conflict between the two groups.

The Khoikhoi were the first native people to come into contact with the Dutch settlers in the mid 17th century. As the Dutch took over land for farms, the Khoikhoi were dispossessed, exterminated, or enslaved and therefore their numbers dwindled. The Khoikhoi were called the ‘Hottentots’ by European settlers because the sound of their language was so different from any European language, and they could not pronounce many of the words and sounds.

The Khoikhoi used a word while dancing that sounded like ‘Hottentots’ and therefore settlers referred to the Khoikhoi by this name – however today this term is considered derogatory. The settlers used the term ‘Bushmen’ for the San, a term also considered derogatory today. Many of those whom the colonists called ‘Bushmen’ were in fact Khoikhoi or former Khoikhoi. For this reason, scholars sometimes find it convenient to refer to hunters and herders together as ‘Khoisan’.

When European settlement began, Khoikhoi groups called the Namaqua were settled in modern day Namibia and the north-eastern Cape; others, including the Korana, along the Orange River; and the Gonaqua, interspersed among the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape. But the largest concentration of Khoikhoi, numbering in the tens of thousands inhabited the well-watered pasture lands of the south-western Cape. These ‘Cape’ Khoikhoi would be the first African population to bear the brunt of White settlement.

According to research (Charles Darwin’s specifically), he found Khoisan’s to be on of olden days human (just like the Australiods). But anyways. When the Dutch popped by the South Africa, they built their farms and do what Europeans do when they go to someone else’s country. This they saw Khoisan’s and blacks. We know the black history, but not the Khoisan’s.

According the Trevor’s Noah’s book. White men had sex with Khoisan women. Now this was during a long time back, where condoms, withdrawal methods and contraceptives were known or invented (so people had sex expecting a baby, unlike now). This was when the Dutch were still westernising the cape (so no women). A plane takes approximately 11 hours to fly from Europe to SA, a modern ship takes five days (imagine how long they took back then, with no turbine and e.t.c. all they had was mother nature power, no wind no moving). So these must have been horny, hungry bored Dutch men.

So now, logically the thing to do was hump the first thing that moves (that’s a female). Khosian’s weren’t black and not black (they were like the native Indians of South Africa).

Beautiful tribe

 Native Indians.

Now these dutch (most probably married) men had sex and Khosian women and later made a half white and Khosian child.

Rumour has it also Zulu (most probably married, but with ten wifes or so) men also had sex with Khosian women and made a half black and half white Khosian women.

This little story buddy. Is how coloured were formed. So you can’t have a white women/man having sex with a black man/female and thinking the child is coloured. NO! Because coloured are unique. Just like all other races in SA.
this is why we find dark coloured, light coloured, Afrikaner coloured and maZulu coloured.
why isn't this taught at school. :-)

To my readers. Please send the message. Everyone is allowed to know where they from. Everyone. The most selfish person is the one that knows everything and says nothing to the one that knows nothing.

Kind regards.