How Classification Became Culture by Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel

Coloured was a legally defined racial classification during apartheid referring to anyone not white or not a member of one of the aboriginal groups of Africa on a cultural basis, which effectively largely meant those people of colour not speaking any indigenous languages. The coloured community of South Africa has always felt marginalised as they have not always been regarded as  pure black or pure white. Their heritage has always been questioned and they always been associated with negativity and our democratic government hasn’t always firmly acknowledged issues that the coloured community has always raised. This evening on our Political Analysis we’re joined by Lynsey Ebony Chutel, a journalist, writer, a reporter for the New York Times and has worked for South African and international news outlets, and Tessa Dooms is a Director at the Rivonia Circle. She is a sociologist, political analyst, who’ve written a book that looks at the history, origins and background who the coloured people are and as well as their heritage and culture.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.