In my family tree - Bredenkamp (AFRICAN) and Viljoen (ASIAN) come to mind. -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Rodger Sent: 21 November 2011 07:16 AM To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Ethnic Percentages On 21 Nov 2011, at 3:42 PM, Michele Cocker wrote: > You guys may want to add some ASIAN and AFRICAN to the mix. > > Have a look at The Cape Melting Pot by HF Heese I quite agree -- these would be particularly applicable to my Afrikaans grandmother (but not the other three grandparents, who came of some rural and some newly-academic Scottish stock, without any marine connections I have ever heard of, which means less scope for such mixtures), and to three of my wife's grandparents, one called Smith but possibly descended from a St Helena family, and two Afrikaans (Beelders and van Graan) with a "v.d.Kaap" showing up here and there in their lines. That's why I covered both settlers and slaves in my previous comment. Anyone with Heese and Lombard can look these names up; I got them from a friend's copy. Andrew Rodger rodgera@audioio.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, It would be rather intresting to know at what point one would qualify for affrimative action!  For example in America one can be 1/16 Cherokee for example and qualify for various affriming remedies (as I understand).  I wonder what percentage would qualify in SA and what the measure would be. Tongue firmly in my cheek, Karel Marais Marais x Thurnau, Lloyd x Pienaar, Bennett x Cloete, Webber x Maskrey, Kapp x Slabbert, Bestbier x Du Toit ________________________________ From: Michele Cocker <michele.cocker@mweb.co.za> To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 21 November 2011, 8:00 Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Ethnic Percentages In my family tree - Bredenkamp (AFRICAN) and Viljoen (ASIAN) come to mind. -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Rodger Sent: 21 November 2011 07:16 AM To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Ethnic Percentages On 21 Nov 2011, at 3:42 PM, Michele Cocker wrote: > You guys may want to add some ASIAN and AFRICAN to the mix. > > Have a look at The Cape Melting Pot by HF Heese I quite agree -- these would be particularly applicable to my Afrikaans grandmother (but not the other three grandparents, who came of some rural and some newly-academic Scottish stock, without any marine connections I have ever heard of, which means less scope for such mixtures), and to three of my wife's grandparents, one called Smith but possibly descended from a St Helena family, and two Afrikaans (Beelders and van Graan) with a "v.d.Kaap" showing up here and there in their lines.  That's why I covered both settlers and slaves in my previous comment.  Anyone with Heese and Lombard can look these names up; I got them from a friend's copy. Andrew Rodger rodgera@audioio.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message