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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. A group of Cape Coloureds were interviewed in the documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs. One of the gang members who participated in the ...
Manenberg is a township of Cape Town, South Africa, that was created by the apartheid government for low-income Coloured families in the Cape Flats in 1966 [2] as a result of the forced removal campaign by the National Party. It has an estimated population of 52,000 residents.
The Coloured Persons Communal Reserves Act of 1961, was an Apartheid South Africa piece of legislation, which was enacted to apply the Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act 1909, of the Cape of Good Hope, to coloured persons settlement areas within the meaning of the Coloured Persons Settlement Areas (Cape) Act, 1930, to repeal the latter Act and to provide for matters incidental thereto.
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In 2020, Adams founded the Cape Coloured Congress and was elected to the Cape Town City Council in the 2021 South African municipal elections. In 2023, the party renamed itself the National Coloured Congress, intending to contest the 2024 South African general election. [5] The party won two seats, with Adams elected to national parliament. [3]
Some Coloured families descended from Cape Coloured migrants from South Africa who had children with local women. Under Rhodesia 's predominantly white government, Coloureds had more privileges than black Africans, including full voting rights, but still faced social discrimination.
In the 1920s the Great Depression hit South Africa and the Cape, and in the late 1920s and the early 1930s more families from the rural areas made their way to the 'convenient area', Elsies River, which now included areas such as Clarke Estate, Avondale Estate, Eureka Estate, amongst others. Some of the influential coloured families back then ...
The National Coloured Congress (NCC; previously the Cape Coloured Congress, CCC) is a South African political party led by Fadiel Adams, the founder of the Gatvol Capetonian Movement. The party was formed in August 2020 and focuses on issues affecting Coloured South Africans , initially in the Western Cape , [ 2 ] and later nationally.