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  2. Cape Malays - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Malays ( Afrikaans: Kaapse Maleiers, کاپز ملیس in Arabies script) also known as Cape Muslims [15] or simply Malays, are a Muslim community or ethnic group in South Africa. [11] The Cape Malay identity can be considered the product of a set of histories and communities as much as it is a definition of an ethnic group.

  3. Cape Coloureds - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaners, Khoisan, Basters, Oorlam, Griqua people, Cape Malays, Bantu peoples of South Africa, Indian South Africans. Cape Coloureds ( Afrikaans: Kaapse Kleurlinge) are a South African ethnic classification consisting primarily of persons of mixed race African, Asian and European descent.

  4. Malays (ethnic group) - Wikipedia

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    a Highly naturalized population of mixed origins, but using the 'Malay' identity. The Malay tricolour embodies the philosophy of Kemelayuan. Malays ( / məˈleɪ / mə-LAY; Malay: Orang Melayu, Jawi: أورڠ ملايو ‎) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as ...

  5. Bo-Kaap - Wikipedia

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    Bo-Kaap. /  33.92083°S 18.41528°E  / -33.92083; 18.41528. The Bo-Kaap (lit. "above the Cape" in Afrikaans) is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in ...

  6. Coloureds - Wikipedia

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    Each vertical bar represents individual. Coloureds ( Afrikaans: Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa who may have ancestry from African, European, and Asian people. The intermixing of different races began in the Cape province of South Africa, with Dutch, Bantu, and Malay slaves intermixing with the ...

  7. Malay cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Malay cuisine is the traditional food of the ethnic Malays of Southeast Asia, residing in modern-day Malaysia, Indonesia (parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan ), Singapore, Brunei, Southern Thailand and the Philippines (mostly southern) as well as Cocos Islands, Christmas Island, Sri Lanka and South Africa . The main characteristic of traditional ...

  8. Ethnic groups in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Malay (or Cape Muslim) identity, which was classified as a subgroup of Coloured by the apartheid government, was generally held to encompass people of multiracial heritage from the Cape, who practiced Islam. San family in South Africa. Khoisan refers to two separate groups.

  9. Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [12] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality .