I take your overall point but a correction. "Coloureds" did not "arrive here as slaves"; Malays (now part of the group termed such) from Indonesia were. Khoisan were already here. In short, SA's present-day brown people are mixed race, the result of 300 years of intermingling and intermarriage among themselves and all SA's races. It continues post-apartheid. Heavens, if we can't get SA's history correct, and still rely on colonial and apartheid-era versions, is it any wonder today we're speaking past each other.