The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics and culture as part of the system of
Race classification certificate issued in terms of the Population Registration Act
Example of the Identity Card from 1959
Explanation of South African identity numbers in an identity document during apartheid in terms of official White, Coloured and Indian population subgroups
Coloureds
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Coloured people are multiracial people in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and to a smaller extent Zimbabwe and Zambia. Their ancestry descends from the interracial mixing that occurred between Europea
Population Registration Act, 1950
…were largely determined by the group to which an individual belonged. There were three basic racial classifications under the law: Black, White and Coloured (mixed). Under the act, as amended, Coloureds and Indians were formally classified into various subgroups, including Cape Coloured, Malay, Griqua…
Coloured family
An extended coloured family from Cape Town, South Africa
Felix Florez, a Filipino man in kalk Bay in 1863
Adam Kok III, leader of the Coloured Griqua People