About six months ago I had a post up on the Cape Coloureds of South Africa. As a reminder, the Cape Coloureds are a mixed-race population who are the plural majority in the southwestern Cape region of ...

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 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 ...

“This will be the five most nervous years the DA has ever faced,” said Fadiel Adams on Wednesday, 3 November as vote capturing and verifying continued in the City of Cape Town. Adams is the leader of ...

Several months ago I put up a post which reviewed the geographical connections within the total genome content of the Cape Coloureds of South Africa. These peoples (plural because distinctive ethnic ...

As coloured people in the Western Cape only held 6.1% and 8.2% of top and senior management positions in the province respectively, the Department of Employment and Labour said its proposed ...

Wayde van Niekerk’s background, spirituality and humility has given hope to Cape Flats youth who grew up surrounded by crime and poverty, writes Taariq Halim. I was one of those sports freaks who woke ...

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 firmly ...

Fruit seller Amien Cox will put his hopes on a white woman in South Africa's local polls on Wednesday, 17 years after the fall of the racist apartheid regime that denied an all-race vote. "No other ...

Dennis Cruywagen is a journalist and the author of Brothers in War and Peace, and The Spiritual Mandela. He is an erstwhile spokesperson for the ANC and the recipient of two fellowships at Harvard ...