In the United States anyone who manifests African ancestry is coded as "black". When they heard the desperate pleas of the 79 Releasing his latest single, Happy, Craig Lucas has seemingly decided to compete with Adele for the saddest song on the planet. [ Jul 17, 2020 ]

That is the national question: how to admit that South Africa had indeed experienced different forms of early conquest, one that saw the indigenous people being dispossessed by other Africans and also Europeans, with both groups laying claim to a country which wasn’t initially theirs.Failing to deal with these cardinal issues will only feed the self-destruction, rage, impotence and disenchantment with the new South Africa present in many coloured communities.Yet self-destructive rage is short-sighted. Our country demands it of us. […] Note: If you want to know more about Dr Ross, check out the article we wrote of her, by… Her hardworking grandma, Fouzia, put food on the table as a cleaner, making it possible for her mom to work herself into a management Footage has been circulating in which it is alleged that approximately 50 prisoners escaped from Malmesbury Prison in the Western Cape. Opinionista • Dennis Cruywagen • 15 October 2019 Coloureds are Africans: We are the indigenous people of South Africa Le mot They form the majority of the Northern Cape and Western Cape populations. Her hardworking grandma, Fouzia, put food on the table as a cleaner, making it possible for her mom to work herself into a management On Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that that the struggle hero and respected former IPID chief, Robert McBride, has been appointed as South Africa’s top foreign spy. Copyright © 2020 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by Footage has been circulating in which it is alleged that approximately 50 prisoners escaped from Malmesbury Prison in the Western Cape. We should do the same while vigorously also promoting non-racialism and equality. Read the full article […] They are widely regarded as the first nation of South Africa. Although Cape Coloureds form a minority group within South Africa, they are the predominant population group in the Western Cape. This badge of shame, disgrace and ignominy that some want to hang around people like me as they excoriate people in this group for not being fully African, or having feasted on the so-called benefits that apartheid had bestowed on them.And as these insults rain down on coloureds, it is conveniently forgotten that many of the forefathers of people who have brown skins were the first freedom fighters in this country. Individuals assigned to this classification originated primarily from 18th- and 19th-century unions between men of higher and women of lower social groups: for instance, between white men and slave women or between slave … Dr Ross Nominated for Top South African Science Award - Coloured South Africa: [ Jul 30, 2020 ] Now that the 2019 elections are becoming a distant memory, it seems like it is time to bring out old resentments about the so-called favouritism that coloureds enjoyed under apartheid.The National Party government cynically tried to turn different shades of the black community against each other by literally placing them on a ladder of meagre benefits. Indeed: this kind of comment is code for actually saying that coloureds are not African; the Western Cape is too coloured and therefore the Western Cape is not African enouget’s call out claims like this out for what they are: racism.

0. […] How Carmen Stevens became a globally beloved, award-winning winemaker by Duncan Masiwa. Community Says No to Bail for Little Gaylin’s Murderer The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has recently revealed the racial divide in COVID-19 deaths, with Blacks and Coloureds more likely to succumb to the disease in South Africa. Coloured, a person of mixed European (“white”) and African (“black”) or Asian ancestry, as officially defined by the South African government from 1950 to 1991. Titled, Happy, the song starts off with the rather tear-inducing lyrics, “I want you