Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Cape Malay community is an ethnic group or community in South Africa. It derives its name from the present-day Western Cape of South Africa and the people originally from Maritime Southeast Asia mostly Javanese from modern-day Indonesia (largely speakers of Malayu hence the name Malay) a Dutch colony for several centuries and Dutch Malacca which the Dutch held from 1641 – 1824. The community’s earliest members were enslaved Javanese transported by the Dutch East India Company.
