In many cases the slaves were imported to be concubines and wives to single male Dutch settlers. Some mixture with the Dutch settlers has thus occurred, as well as with the indigenous Khoi and Bushmen.
Technically, the term "Cape Coloured" referred to a subset of "Coloured" South Africans, with complex (and often arbitrary) criteria having been used by the Apartheid bureaucracy to determine whether a person was a "Cape Coloured", or belonged to one of a number of other related "Coloured" subgroups such as the "Cape Malays", or "Other Coloureds".
The term CapeColoureds refers to the modern-day descendants of slaves imported into South Africa by Dutch settlers as well as to other groups of mixed ancestry.
Technically, the term "CapeColoured" referred to a subset of "Coloured" South Africans, with subjective criteria having been used by the Apartheid bureaucracy to determine whether a person was a "CapeColoured", or belonged to one of a number of other related "Coloured" subgroups such as the "Cape Malays", or "Other Coloureds".
CapeColoured group is far from being homogenous: these divisions were accentuated by the Apartheid classifications which defined type hierarchies with this grouping.
But some people who identify as Coloured reject the term “mixed race” on the grounds that it suggests that they are somehow the exception to a general rule of racial purity — an idea not borne out by genetics or history.
Coloured people largely lost their votes in the 1950s, with the last municipal votes being removed in 1972.
Coloured people were subject to forced relocation; for instance, the multicultural Cape Town area of District Six was bulldozed and its inhabitants moved to racially-designated sections of the metropolitan area on the Cape Flats.
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