Bit off thread perhaps, but the latest forms from the South African CAA ask for details of my "Population Group" for, "statistical purposes".
Quite apart from the rights and wrongs of this (and the potential for this information to be abused), the options are;
'African', 'White', 'Coloured', 'Asian' or 'Other', which suggests that the CAA doesn't recognise the existence of white, coloured or asian Africans.
Does 'Coloured" means mixed black and white race or does it extend to black/asian, white/asian as well?
As a white European of Scottish / English parentage, can I tick 'other' on the grounds that I am mixed race?
Will the form still be processed if decline to form part of this statistical survey?
Does anyone thow what these statistical purposes are?