The principal groups are the Ovambo, Kavango, Herero / Himba, Damara, mixed race ( Coloured and Rehoboth Baster ), White Namibians ( Afrikaner, German, and Portuguese ), Nama, Caprivian ( Lozi ), Bushmen ( San ), and Tswana.

The Coloured community are generally bilingual, however English accents are strongly influenced by primary mother-tongue ( Afrikaans or English ).

The English accents of both related groups are significantly different and easily distinguishable ( primarily because of prevalent code-switching amongst the majority of Coloured English speakers, particularly in the Western Cape of South Africa ).

The range of accents found amongst English-speaking Coloureds ( from the distinctive " Cape Flats or Coloured English " to the standard " colloquial " South African English accent ) are of special interest.

In 1963 following the painting's visit to the United States, Andy Warhol created serigraph prints of multiple Mona Lisas called Thirty are Better than One, like his works of Marilyn Monroe ( Twenty-five Coloured Marilyns, 1962 ), Elvis Presley ( 1964 ) and Campbell's soup ( 1961 – 1962 ).

Today, carnival minstrels are mostly Coloured (" mixed race "), Afrikaans-speaking revelers.

The two are reunited (" Jacob in Egypt ") for a happy conclusion and Joseph dons his coloured coat once more (" Finale: Any Dream Will Do ( Reprise )/ Give Me My Coloured Coat ").

Coloured piping and buttons are added in accordance with rank: purple for chaplains of His Holiness ; amaranth red for bishops, protonotaries apostolic and Honorary Prelates ; and scarlet red for cardinals.

White and Coloured South African singers are historically influenced by European musical styles.

The Griqua ( Afrikaans Griekwa, sometimes incorrectly called Korana ) are a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people.

Today the South African National Defence Force ( SANDF ) has racial quotas to make sure that White, Black, Coloured, and Indian South Africans are equally represented in the armed forces.

Coloured belt ranks are defined as follows ( from lowest to highest rank ):

They largely live in Namibia and are similar to Coloured or Griqua people in South Africa.

Coloured halos are an indication of corneal edema, and are a warning that acute glaucoma may be present.

Coloured belts are for geup-holders, while black belts are usually worn by dan-holders.

* 15 October – ' Trojan Horse Massacre ' – 3 Coloured youths are killed and 15 others wounded after South African security force members hiding in the back of an unmarked truck ambush and open fire on a stone-throwing crowd in the township of Athlone, Cape Town.

Also available are the quaintly named Coloured Supplements, a monthly piece giving Christian comment on social and political issues, normally written by the vicar.

According to the 2001 census conducted by Statistics South Africa, the population of the greater Blouberg municipality was 161, 314, of whom 99. 4 % are African, 0. 5 % white, 0. 1 % Coloured and 0. 1 % Asian.

The current members of Coloured Stone are: Bunna Lawrie ( vocals, rhythm guitar, didgeridu, gong stone ), Selwyn Burns ( lead guitar, vocals ), Nicky Moffat ( bass guitar, vocals, didgeridu ) and Peter Hood ( drums ).

In the United Kingdom, Tobianos are frequently referred to as " Coloured " or as Piebald ( black and white ) or Skewbald ( white and any base color other than black ).

Its political history is complex and sometimes baffling even to insiders: for instance, the politics of the Coloured communities of the Cape Flats have included Trotskyist activism in earlier years, and mobilization for the United Democratic Front in the 80s ; and then, widespread support for the historically white National Party ( which had presided over apartheid ) in the early post-apartheid elections.

The name Orlam was sometimes applied to persons who could also be known as Baster but was a more general name for Khoi and Coloured persons generally who spoke Dutch and practised a largely European way of life.

Constantine's wartime experiences caused him to increase his involvement in the League of Coloured Peoples, sometimes referring cases to them.

Coloured tape placed under climbing holds is another way that is often used to mark different climbing routes.

** " Coloured ", a term used in the British Isles to describe the coat of a Pinto horse

Under Apartheid, under the Population Registration Act as amended, the term Cape Coloured referred to a subset of Coloured South Africans, with subjective criteria having been used by the bureaucracy to determine whether a person was a Cape Coloured, or belonged to one of a number of other related subgroups such as the " Cape Malays ", or " Other Coloureds ".

In South Africa, and much of English-speaking southern Africa, the term Coloured was used to describe a mixed-race person and also Asians not of African descent.

Coloured thread was widely used.

During the apartheid era, in order to keep divisions and maintain a race-focused society, the government used the term Coloured to describe one of the four main racial groups identified by law: Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Indians.

For the term used to describe an ethnic group in Southern Africa see Coloured.

Coloured uniforms were useful in enabling commanders to spot troop locations on battlefields that were often completely obscured by smoke from the black used in both muskets and cannons.

Coloured winkers, of the style used in Thoroughbred racing.

Together with the Gandhara grave culture and the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, it is considered by some scholars a nucleus of Vedic civilization.

Coloured Engraving by Miss Highmore.

It was largely by this method ( mixed-race Bermudians being added to the number of Blacks, rather than added to the number of Whites or being defined as a separate demographic group ) that Coloured ( subsequently redefined in the twentieth century as Black ) Bermudians came to outnumber White Bermudians by the end of the 19th century, despite starting off at a numerical disadvantage, and despite low Black immigration prior to the latter 19th century ( other contributing factors included the scale of White relative to Black emigration in the 17th and 18th centuries, the greater mortality of Whites from disease in the late 17th century, and large-scale West Indian immigration, which began, like Portuguese immigration, in the 19th century to provide labourers for the new export agriculture industry and expansion of the Royal Naval Dockyard.

A Unusual types of gramophone records # Coloured vinyl | colored vinyl single released by HMV

Coloured woodblock editions of individual fables were made by Kawanabe Kyosai in the 19th century.

In addition to the remnants of the force which had been engaged under Brock in the morning, he had five companies of the 41st and seven of militia ( including Captain Runchey's Company of Coloured Men ), with two 3-pounder guns, belonging to Swayze's Provincial Artillery ( a militia unit ) but commanded by Lieutenant Crowther of the 41st.

So, for example, most residents of Mitchell's Plain likely still speak a locally-inflected version of Afrikaans, along with English and either they or their parents were designated as Coloured by apartheid ; most residents of Khayelitsha still speak Xhosa and English and either they or their parents were designated as Black by apartheid.

Coloured babies from Austria were sent in the age of 4 to 7 years by Austrian youth welfare offices to the USA by air flight.

* 1966: When the Coloured People Come, by John Gummer, Oldbourne, ISBN 0-356-01199-2

Hoffmann was persuaded by friends to publish the book anonymously as Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3 – 6 Jahren ( Funny Stories and Whimsical Pictures with 15 Beautifully Coloured Panels for Children Aged 3 to 6 ) in 1845.

States were also established by other population groups, most notably the Griqua, a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people.

In 1958 Botha was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs by Hendrik Verwoerd, and in 1961 advanced to Minister of Coloured Affairs.

He wrote about birds including Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood ( 1895 ) and Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, which was completed by Osbert Salvin after his death.

Coloured by induced electric current.

# 1838, Flycatchers or Muscicapidae, The Natural Arrangement and Relations, Thirty-three Coloured Plates, Vol. X, by William John Swainson, with Portrait and Memoir of Albrecht von Haller.