#AColouredTapestry

The story of Goedverwacht (near Piketberg) begins with an enslaved woman, Maniesa, originally from Bengal, India. She was held in slavery by Hendrik Schalk Burger. Burger was a widower whose
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Sheikh Yusuf was exiled from his homeland and arrived at the Cape on 2 April 1694. He was housed along with his followers on the farm Zandvliet, at the mouth
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In 1961, a Coloured journalist, Joseph Louw, and Pamela Beira, a White woman, were arrested under the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, which banned sex between "Europeans" and Black people
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The first Cape Governor was of mixed descent; and would have been regarded as a Coloured man today. This fact was largely unacknowledged in history textbooks by the Apartheid government.
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Krotoa married Pieter van Meerhof on 26 April 1664. Their marriage was the first recorded union between an indigenous person and a European settler. She was also the first Khoe
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