In a third school, this time in Cape Town’s southern suburbs, a learner whose grandparents emigrated from India identified as coloured “because of my accent”.

Siqalo is a mostly Xhosa informal settlement in Mitchells Plain, the largest coloured township in Cape Town. Some Siqalo squatters are coloured, but to outsiders the settlement’s identity is ...

Cape Town - ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe wooed coloured voters in Cape Town on Friday, telling them there was a space for them in the ruling party. "You don't need to ask for that space, it is ...

The Dutch first governor of the Cape Colony had a maternal grandmother who was an Indian slave, by various accounts Goan or Bengali (the town of Stellensbosch is named for him). No doubt it was far ...

Cape Town - The question of the so-called “coloured vote” has again bubbled to the surface of recent discussions centred around the political landscape of the Western Cape province.

The Western Cape demographics show coloured population to hover around 50%, Whites 20% and Africans 30% thus one would think coloureds would politically be running the show there. It is with great ...

Cape Town, South Africa ... In the lush southern suburbs, Lackay, who is from the multiracial “Coloured” community, has some criticism of his new home.

Over the course of three months, from November 2016 to January 2017, photographer and graphic designer Carey Chanquin captured the coloured creative community in Cape Town in a project that ...

Dental modification is a teenage rite of passage for some in Cape Town - one that has been around for 60 years. ... a mainly coloured area on the outskirts of Cape Town.

Cape Town is naturally more beautiful than Johannesburg. But that isn’t new. ... Black South Africans are a minority; the largest group is mixed-race “coloureds”, ...

In terms of looks alone, I’d bet that 70 to 80 percent of African-Americans, were they to go to Cape Town, would probably pass for coloured if they didn’t open their mouths.