The Griqua (Afrikaans Griekwa, sometimes incorrectly called Korana) are a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people. The Griqua are a racially and culturally mixed people who originated in the intermarriages or sexual relations between European colonists in the Cape and the Khoikhoi already living there in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1813 Rev. John Campbell of the London Missionary Society (LMS) used the term for a mixed group of Chariguriqua (a Cape Khoikhoi… (More on Griqua) |