ANC
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That is the thing, it works like this everywhere except South Africa.
We have a very complicated history. I am pretty big into shit from the 1600s to the 1700s.
As I said there are plenty of people of mixed race who we should probably just call black, but there are also many people descendant from the many tribes we found around the Cape a few hundred years ago. There are still some mixed race communities like the Basters who are proud of their heritage but others like the oorlams people ( the Dutch guys would understand what that means) and even the Griquas have mostly disappeared. The qua sound/word means people, and is found in almost all tribe names from khoi khoi (means men of men) to all the quas... like Namaquas etc...
They were, for the most part, pushed to the southern tip of Africa by the southernly moving real black Nguni tribes who were exterminating them and found themselves between the devil and the deep blue sea with multiple European countries successively conquering the cape and destroy the lifestyles and riches they had. So, don't all take kindly to being called black, or mixed either.
https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/53593/africae-pars-meridionalis-cum-promontorio-bonae-spei-accurat-lotter
This map is from 1788 and shows many of the tribes (Look for the Dutch word natie -- nation, meaning folk or people, and also look for all the Quas, now that you know what it means).
My family was already in the country in the 1700s in the same town me and my dad and grandfather was born
We have a very complicated history. I am pretty big into shit from the 1600s to the 1700s.
As I said there are plenty of people of mixed race who we should probably just call black, but there are also many people descendant from the many tribes we found around the Cape a few hundred years ago. There are still some mixed race communities like the Basters who are proud of their heritage but others like the oorlams people ( the Dutch guys would understand what that means) and even the Griquas have mostly disappeared. The qua sound/word means people, and is found in almost all tribe names from khoi khoi (means men of men) to all the quas... like Namaquas etc...
They were, for the most part, pushed to the southern tip of Africa by the southernly moving real black Nguni tribes who were exterminating them and found themselves between the devil and the deep blue sea with multiple European countries successively conquering the cape and destroy the lifestyles and riches they had. So, don't all take kindly to being called black, or mixed either.
https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/53593/africae-pars-meridionalis-cum-promontorio-bonae-spei-accurat-lotter
This map is from 1788 and shows many of the tribes (Look for the Dutch word natie -- nation, meaning folk or people, and also look for all the Quas, now that you know what it means).
My family was already in the country in the 1700s in the same town me and my dad and grandfather was born
