Coloured people in Namibia

The biggest cultural clash occurred in the mid-1980s when the school students were becoming politically aware through teachers returning primarily from the University of the Western Cape (UWC).

These settlers petitioned for permission to create a coloured township, and this was granted in 1921 by the South African Department of Native Affairs.

[5] The South West African (SWA) Administration and white settlers distinguished three distinct groups amongst the Coloureds: 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 representing the Coloured community in South West Africa was established.

The Colour Bar Law of 1926 that reserved certain positions in the mining industry for Whites was made applicable in South West 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.

[7] 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.