Griqua people
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The Griquas are a subgroup of mixed-race heterogeneous Afrikaans-speaking nations in South Africa with a unique origin in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony. Like the Boers, they migrated inla
Adam Kok III, the Captain of the Griqua people
Mixed-race "Afrikander" trek-boer nomads in the Cape Colony, ancestral people to the great Griqua migration.
An 1820 drawing of a street scene in Griquatown, Griqualand West.
"Griqua" listed as a separate ethnicity from "Cape Coloured" and "Other Coloured" on an apartheid-era identity document.
Adam Kok III
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Adam Kok III was a leader of the Griqua people in South Africa.
Griqua people
…KwaZulu-Natal's frontier with the Eastern Cape. It was a historical division in the Eastern Cape province approximately 19000 km2. This area was named after Adam Kok III. In 1861–1862, Kok III led more than 2,000 Griqua through Basutoland over the Drakensberg mountains. They settled on a piece of unclaimed territory…
Adam Kok III bust at Transgariep Museum in Philippolis
Adam Kok