other coloured, participial adjectival phrase and & noun phrase
- Forms:
- Frequently with initial capitals.
- Origin:
- See coloured.
historical
A. participial adjectival phrase Of or pertaining to a person who, during the apartheid era, was defined as ‘Other Coloured’ (see quotation 1959) in the system of race classification. See also coloured participial adjective.
1959 Govt Gaz. Vol.195 No.6191, 11Other Coloured Group: In the Other Coloured Group shall be included any person who is not included in the Cape Coloured Group, the Malay Group, the Griqua Group, the Chinese Group, the Indian Group or the Other Asiatic Group, and who is not a white person or a native as defined in section one of the Population Registration Act, 1950.
1991 B. Robertson in Sunday Times 14 July (Extra) 8There were many children of Oriental sailors and white prostitutes who were brought to welfare agencies...The seamen were classified honorary whites and their offsprings were classified ‘Other Coloured’.
B. noun phrase One who, during the apartheid era, was classified as a member of the officially-defined ‘Other Coloured’ group, a sub-group of the Coloured group in terms of the Population Registration Act. See also coloured noun.
1978 Drum June 79The offspring of a coloured guy and a black girl would usually be classified as an ‘other coloured’. I say usually because there are some cases when the child is able to choose whether he wants to be classified as coloured or black.
Of or pertaining to a person who, during the apartheid era, was defined as ‘Other Coloured’ (see quotation 1959) in the system of race classification.
One who, during the apartheid era, was classified as a member of the officially-defined ‘Other Coloured’ group, a sub-group of the Coloured group in terms of the Population Registration Act.
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