Hi all
I'm South African.
I don't know much about my parentage, as we parted ways rather early in my life..
Maternally Irish I believe
Paternally, if one digs around,
this is where things get a mite interesting..
Originally from Dutch who blundered around this pebble called Earth in sailing ships and finally bumped into the Cape (as in Cape Town)
There, as we all know, every man jack of them got involved with the Khoy-san tribe.
Their decendants (mine included) then buggered off (Trekked up to the Transvaal, away from the English, We never liked that lot too much, you know)....
(Mine got involved at the battle of blood river, that trek led by Andries Pretorius where we gave the Zulus a big-time ass-whipping).
Anyhow, because we have direct Khoy-san heritage, which
apparantly can be traced back to the origions of man-kind which
apparantly emminated from the Cape,
That would make me coloured and not white /caucasian (as most of us Africkaans whities would like to believe), and related to all you wonderful folk in some way!
Now 'ain't that something?
The leg bone's connected to the knee bone,
The knee bone's connected to the thigh bone,
The thigh bone's connected to the hip bone
Trial by error