Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a South African race of half-castes, resulting from the intercourse between the Dutch settlers and Hottentot and Bush women.
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- noun Any of a
subgroup ofSouth Africa 'sheterogeneous andmultiracial black people, originally populating thefrontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living asseminomadic commandos ofmounted gunmen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is, however, precisely in the relationships established and entrenched through matrimony that we can see evolving — but not rigid — class distinctions, changing attitudes about race, and the creation of a settler identity distinct from indigenous African communities (Khoikhoi, San, and Xhosa) as well as from other emerging colonial groups including free blacks and mixed-race communities such as Griqua and Bastaards.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Martin Legassick, "The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries."
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Note 19: Martin Legassick, "The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Missionaries, 1780 – 1840: The Politics of a Frontier Zone."
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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It is not possible to reconstruct an identity based on a few lines in the landdrost's loan farm payment ledgers, but the fleeting appearances of individuals like Cornelis Koopman and Jan Swart Jansz testify to the presence of individuals who did not "pass unobtrusively" as settlers or forge an alternative colonial identity such as Griqua.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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A shorter formulation of his principal arguments appears as "The Northern Frontier to 1840: The Rise and Decline of the Griqua People," in Elphick and Giliomee, Shaping, 358 – 420.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Griqua said the meeting discussed the organisation's ongoing programmes.
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On Tuesday, Griqua denied that this was discussed at the weekend meeting in Kempton Park and Hlatshwayo denied authoring the statement.
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Griqua further stated that a misunderstanding between a few members of staff and Nxesi had been "attended to and resolved" by
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This year, the Northern Cape government also wants to ensure that the remains of the Griqua leader, Cornelius Kok, and Kgosi
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Griqua said Napwa believed that the false statement originated from unknown "disgruntled elements".
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