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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 ...
The Cape region, including the Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape, also attracted many European immigrants of various nationalities, including Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, and Italians, many of whom married into the Cape Coloured community while some mixed with other ethnic groups, their children were absorbed into the Cape Coloured ...
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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.
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. [4] The party won two seats, with Adams elected to national parliament. [2]
The Cape Mounted Riflemen (Imperial) were formed on 25 November 1827; the Corps was reorganised as battalion of mounted infantry. In 1850 some soldiers effectively mutinied by joining Coloured rebellion in the eastern Cape; the regiment was subsequently reconstituted as mixed unit with both White and Coloured members. Some years later, in 1854 ...
A coloured pressure group, the African People's Organisation (APO) opposed the transfer of the German colony to the South African Authority. From the end of World War I, when South Africa took over the administration of South West Africa (now Namibia), more Cape Coloureds entered the territory.