![]() ![]() I have included in this list only those surnames of which seven or more people married persons with Eva's genes. Nobody has ever sat down to work out how many Afrikaners have non-European genes which would enable them to claim to be Blacks, but I have now made a list of the surnames and numbers of people who married descendants of just one of Eva's great-grandchildren. ![]() Heese's book, Groep Sonder Grense, the particulars of more than a thousand marriages between Europeans and non-European people in the period 1652 to 1795 in the Cape are recorded. I went on to say that Eva, the Khoi (or "Hottentot") girl,who grew up in Jan van Riebeeck's house, was not the only non-European woman to marry a European in South Africa. ![]() I contended that anyone claiming to have the genes of an indigenous African or of any non-European, can, in terms of the Act, claim to be Black. It merely states that Blacks are "Africans, Coloureds and Indians". In a previous article I claimed that the Black Economic Empowerment Act provides no definition for "Coloureds". The controversy around the statement about the number of "Coloureds" in the Western Cape and recent articles about this group of people promp one to ask for a definition of a "Coloured" person. Piet Swanepoel says most Afrikaners can claim black descent ![]()
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