Cape Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurlinge) are a South African group of multiracial people who are from the Cape region in South Africa which consists of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape.

Coloureds mostly live in the western part of South Africa. In Cape Town, they form 45.4% of the total population, according to the South African National Census of 2011. The apartheid-era Population Registration Act of 1950 and subsequent amendments codified the Coloured identity and defined its subgroups.

Jun 30, 2009 · A little under 10% of South Africa’s population are Cape Coloureds. They speak Afrikaans and generally worship in Reformed Christian churches, but exhibit discernible non-European ancestry, in particular African ancestry.

In the Western Cape, a distinctive Cape Coloured and affiliated Cape Malay culture developed. Genetic studies suggest the group has the highest levels of mixed ancestry in the world.

May 17, 2018 · Most of South Africa's 3.6 million Coloreds live in both the urban and rural areas around Cape Town, where they make up influential political and cultural groups. However, they have also migrated to other major centers, and significant concentrations can be found around the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, East London, and Durban.

Jan 30, 2008 · One source reports that the Northern Cape Coloureds (population of approximately 460,000) in the country of South Africa are a unique culture of racially mixed origin. This correlates with resident sources in the area.

Jun 16, 2011 · You can see that the Cape Coloured samples have Northern European, Khoisan, Bantu African, Indian, and East Asian ancestry. There is a Yemeni component in two of the Coloured individuals which begs to be explained.

Jan 11, 2025 · Most South Africans who identified themselves as Coloured spoke Afrikaans and English, were Christians, lived in a European manner, and affiliated with whites. Many lived in Cape Town, its suburbs, and rural areas of Western Cape province.

Jan 22, 2025 · More than half of the residents of the city and metropolitan area are Coloured (the former official term for people of mixed race), about one-fourth are white, about one-fifth are Black, and the remainder are of Asian—primarily Indian—origin. In the metropolitan area Afrikaans is the first language of almost half the Coloureds and whites.

The majority of Coloureds living in Cape Town are able to speak both languages. Because of South Africa's history of racial discrimination, many feel that the term coloured is derogatory. The official term is "Coloured people", but many Coloureds prefer to call themselves "Black", "Khoisan", or just "South African".