The portrayal of South Africa's coloured community by President of the Patriotic Alliance and Minister of Sport, Arts, and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, is both a misrepresentation and a humiliation.
A South African teacher has been summoned to a disciplinary hearing, accused of fraud, for identifying as "African" in a job application. Glen Snyman is "coloured" - as people of mixed race have ...
Coloured identity is regarded as intermediate, paradoxical, anomalous, deracinated and liminal in South African society (Turner 1969). This opens it to ambivalence: one the one hand, to sacralisation ...