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The Coloureds of Southern Africa

By Internet Source | January 6, 2010

The various Coloured communities in southern Africa developed out by events of the Dutch colonization of South Africa. In 1652 a small company of employees of the Dutch East India Company were settled on the southern tip of Africa in order to establish a refreshment station for the Company’s ships en route to the Far [...]

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Race Ebonics – Different names, the same people!

By Ross | May 22, 2008

All around the world, proud individuals of mixed ancestry, heritage, religion and heritage define and identify themselves that are particular to their country and culture. Some of the words are offensive but they do not in any way reflect the ideas, aims and principles of the Beyond Identity family. We are people because of other [...]

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Beyond Racial Identity

By Ross | April 14, 2007

No matter where you are in the world, at some point or the other you will be accosted with an idea, a thought, a concept or a word that designate a distinction between people either based on race, color, creed, religion or belief. More often than not this serves as signpost of brewing and growing [...]

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The Coloured Commandments

By Ross | January 17, 2007

In general, the conception of a colored man is based on numerous and inadequate generalizations stemming from human hypocrisy and slave trade; and eventually institutionalized in 1948 with Apartheid, a National Party philosophy, in South Africa. The National Party’s brutality and immorality wrought immense human havoc to the non-European communities which was evident in their [...]

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All in the Family, rattling racial skeletons

By Internet Source | January 17, 2007

There is a well-worn jest in South Africa that the country’s “colored problem” actually began about nine months after the first Dutch settlers landed at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. However, in the strictly segregated society that has developed since, it is no laughing matter to suggest that the Afrikaners, who make up [...]

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