Hottentot (racial term)
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Hottentot is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, the indigenous pastoralists in South Africa. Use of the term Hottentot is now considered deeply offensive, with on
"Korah Hottentots preparing to remove" (Samuel Daniell, 1805)
1820 caricature by George Cruikshank showing 1820 Settlers being attacked by cannibal "Hottentots"
Cape Coloureds
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Cape Coloureds are a South African group of Coloureds who are from the Cape region in South Africa which consists of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape. Their ancestry comes from the
Felix Florez, a Filipino man in Kalk Bay in 1863
Cape Coloured school children in Mitchells Plain
Cape Coloured children in Bonteheuwel township (Cape Town, South Africa)
The Christmas Bands are a popular Cape Coloured cultural tradition in Cape Town.