In a third school, this time in Cape Town’s southern suburbs, a learner whose grandparents emigrated from India identified as coloured “because of my accent”.

Siqalo is a mostly Xhosa informal settlement in Mitchells Plain, the largest coloured township in Cape Town. Some Siqalo squatters are coloured, but to outsiders the settlement’s identity is ...

In March 2016, it was 19-year-old Sinoxolo Mafevuka who was brutally raped and killed in a communal toilet 200 meters away ...

Over the course of three months, from November 2016 to January 2017, photographer and graphic designer Carey Chanquin captured the coloured creative community in Cape Town in a project that ...

A Cape Coloured family. I've mentioned the Cape Coloureds of South Africa on this weblog before. Culturally they're Afrikaans in language and Dutch Reformed in religion (the possibly related Cape ...

Cape Town - ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe wooed coloured voters in Cape Town on Friday, telling them there was a space for them in the ruling party. "You don't need to ask for that space, it is ...

The Western Cape demographics show coloured population to hover around 50%, Whites 20% and Africans 30% thus one would think coloureds would politically be running the show there. It is with great ...

Cape Town, South Africa ... Meanwhile, people of colour – including Black, Indian, and “Coloured” communities – were relegated to different townships and ghettos on the periphery.

In a council sitting this week, Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis showed an image of National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams holding a gun, which has prompted the latest in a back-and ...