Coloured People

The podcasters’ ‘coloured people are dangerous’ comments are the echoes of enduring colonial stereotypes which need to be silenced

While race is still central, it is the battle among the rich for the wealth of South Africa that has exacerbated inequality

Notions of superior Western and scientific understanding need to be challenged

‘​Why do I write? Being born as the light-skinned girl in a dark-skinned neighbourhood gives you an interesting perspective’

Research suggests that a complex crisis of identity is at the heart of the problem

Understanding who we coloured people are and not trying to fit into one race group or another is the way to the future

Immigrants self-identify differently – and they can help their new country become truly nonracial

In this Sound Africa podcast, Candice Nolan tries to find the answers she is looking for by looking in an old bible

Gatvol Capetonian is a coloured ultra-nationalist organisation but here’s the kicker: their racist culprit is the post-apartheid government

A particularly South African kind of shame raises questions of home, belonging and mixed identity in this remarkable memoir

Protests disrupted schooling in Klipspruit West after a black principal was brought into the largely coloured area

‘Mixed Space’ is a short film that delves, through the participants, into mixed-race people’s views of themselves and identities given to them

In the same week the UN was looking into claims that coloured people were gatvol, rioting erupted.

Three families in too little space: "We literally fight for this room."

Camissa has taken its discrimination argument to the UN Human Rights Council.