These mixed-blood 'tribes' were known by a number of individual names, but the colonial powers classified them as either 'Bastaards' (off-spring of Europeans and non-whites) or 'Bastaard-Hottentots' (children of slaves and Khoikhoi).
'Mefare' eno ya lotso lo lo kopakopaneng e ne e itsagale ka maina a morafe mongwe le mongwe, fela babusi ba makoloniale ba ba tlhaotse jaaka 'Bastaards' (bana ba baYuropa le batho ba eseng basweu) kgotsa 'Bastaard-Hottentots' (bana ba makgoba le baKhoikhoi).