Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Griqua (Afrikaans Griekwa sometimes incorrectly called Korana) are a subgroup of South Africa’s heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people. However they have a unique origin in the early history of the Cape Colony. Similar to another Afrikaans-speaking group at the time the Trekboers they originally populated the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony their semi-nomadic society mobilised into commandos of mounted gunmen.
