Philip, did not look much further. Philip, like other Europeans of his time,
did not believethat Khoikhoi would everbe the economic and social equals
of Whites. With his doctrine of moral and material improvement, more-
over, he was looking to a free market to produce a humane outcome. The
notion that the state itself should actively assist the subordinate classes to
achieve prosperity and substantial equality was not in his repertoire. 71
After emancipation in the Cape Colony, as later in the United States, the
forms were the forms of freedom, but the facts were still the facts of exploi-
tation.
Emancipation gave the Khoikhoi and the former slaves the same legal
status, and officials soon began to refer to them comprehensively as the
Cape Coloured People. The term has stuck, In twentieth-century South
Africa, the Coloured People became one of the four main racial categories
recognized by the South African government, as distinct from the ruling
class, which was deemed to be White; from the Bantu-speaking Africans,
who formed the majority of the population; and from Asians, who had
begun to be imported from India to Natal as indentured laborers in the
1860s.
In fact, biological and cultural differences among the Coloured People