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The SWA Administration dealt a significant blow to the status of the "Coloured" group when it promulgated Proclamation No 34 of 1924 (Native Urban Areas Proclamation). The proclamation states that "a coloured person who lives in the native location shall be regarded as native". The Colour Bar Law of
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opposed the transfer of the German colony to the South African Authority. From the end of World War I, when South Africa took over the administration of South West Africa (now Namibia), more Cape Coloureds entered the territory. These settlers petitioned for permission to create a coloured township,
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In 1950, the National Party of SWA (NPSWA) won the elections for the Legislative Assembly. The blurring of ethnic lines between the "Coloureds" and poor whites was the major motivation for the introduction of the Group Areas Act in 1950. The Act prescribes ownership and occupancy of land on racial
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On 18 April 1955, SWACTA and SWA Coloured People's Bond (SWACPB) presented a petition to the SWA Administration and the South African Department of Native Affairs for the creation of a new "coloured" township in Windhoek. In addition, SWACTA requests the establishment of a Council for Coloured
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In 1946, Andrew Kloppers moved to Windhoek from South Africa. Before his arrival he was involved in politics in the Cape and was a member of the Kleurling Ouer-Onderwyser Vereniging (KOOV), the Coloured Parents-Teachers Organisation. In 1947 he forms the South West African Coloured Teachers'
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The first local branch of the APO was established in February 1923. Its aims were to defend "the Social Political and Civil Rights of the Cape Coloured Community throughout the SW Protectorate". Two years later, the African National Bond (ANB), another political organisation with its aim of
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The coloured people represent a very wide range of genetic and cultural backgrounds. They are a mixed race with European and African ancestry. Their history under the rule of South Africa was very similar to that of the
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Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo launched the Ovamboland People's Organisation in Cape Town on 2 August 1957. Among the founding members are "coloured" political activists, Ottiliè Schimming and Kenneth Abrahams.
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representing the Coloured community in South West Africa was established. Both the APO and ANB sympathised with the two South Africa "white" parties, (South African Party and National Party).
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The biggest cultural clash occurred in the mid-1980s when the school students were becoming politically aware through teachers returning primarily from the
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Affairs. Till this point, the "coloured" population in Windhoek is represented by a "coloured" member on the Native Advisory Board of the Old Location.
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On 10 December 1959,the police move into the "Old Location" to break up a crowd of people demonstrating against the moves to
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Both parties oppose the creation of the new "coloured" township, Khomasdal, to be built west of the town Centre of Windhoek.
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The South West African (SWA) Administration and white settlers distinguished three distinct groups amongst the Coloureds:
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and this was granted in 1921 by the South African Department of Native Affairs. The first coloured township was built in
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However, since the early 2000s, more and more writings have appeared arguing that Coloureds are being marginalised.
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1926 that reserved certain positions in the mining industry for Whites was made applicable in South West Africa.
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Norman Duncan, interviewed in the Cape Times (4 December 1996), in Erasmus, Coloured by history, 21.
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Volksorganisasie van Suidwes-Afrika (People's Organisation of Southwest-Africa), which is anti-SA.
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becomes the President of the South West Africa Coloured Teachers Association from 1950 to 1953.
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Indegenes (including Khoe) San, Khoe and amaXhosa in the Cape and the baSotho and baTswana
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In addition, another element in the coloured makeup was the coloured community in the
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officials who referred to three distinct groups amongst the coloureds, namely: "
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and migrants (people who owed debts for example, and other economic reasons)
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SWA Coloured Organisation (SWACO), with a pro South African stance; and
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ancestry especially along the coast and areas bordering South Africa.
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against the South African administration of South West Africa.
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South West African Coloured Teachers' Association (SWACTA)
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People with both European and African ancestry in Namibia
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Two "coloured" organisations are established in 1959:
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