In Southern Africa, the term Coloureds (also known as Bruinmense or Kleurlinge) is an ethnic label for people of mixed ethnic origin who possess ancestry from Europe, Asia, and various Khoisan and Bantu ethnic groups of southern Africa. Not all Coloured people share the same ethnic background.
On this day in 2007, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the United Nationâs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to increase public knowledge about man-made climate change.
In recent years the Nobel Prize for Peace, administered by a committee of the Norwegian parliament, has gone to such high-profile world figures as Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin for their involvement in the Middle East peace progress, and in South Africa to F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela.