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 that November 2007 speech, given in Iowa, Clinton did name-check Gore three times. She congratulated the former vice president for recently winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and she pitched one of his ideas: a new âConnie Maeâ program that would help people get loans to pay for more energy efficient homes.