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When the Dutch first landed, as was often the case with colonialism, they decimated the

first tribes they came into contact with, who recalled the Koi Koi and the Koi

Sson. The Portuguese had already started the job, but between unfamiliar diseases, displacement

battles over land, forced labor and loss of their way of life, these tribes were all but

destroyed by the invading Europeans. But as is also, usually the case, some interbreeding

occurred, no doubt mostly in the form of settler men forcing themselves upon indigenous

women, the descendants of these violent unions lived on designated as

collards. In a society where sexual relations between the races was still

illegal until the early 1990s, it is their origin in the coastal Cape Town where

the majority of collards often referred to as Cape collards still lived that

earned them this backhanded reputation as being good fisherman. One

particularly atrocious historical chapter involved a residential area in Cape

Town called District 6, which was deemed too nice for the majority colored

population. This was during the period of establishing the Buntou stans that

were called homelands in English, a concept somewhat similar to American

Indian reservations, but probably worse. The apartheid government took it

upon themselves to designate certain areas as the rightful dwelling places of

people belonging to different tribes. Regardless of where people had been living

and working for generations, they would be rounded up and bust to their

homeland to start a new. The Buntou stans were an elaborate pantomime of

independence designed to both strengthen white presence where it was wanted

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