Comments on: Cape Malay Recipes?

By: pasta maker

pasta maker — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:39:55 +0000

I liked the post and your writing style. I’m adding you to my RSS reader.

Greetings from Tim.

By: Maiya

Maiya — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:30:06 +0000

I agree with Lessenor. Am not african but malay. Hoping to find out more on african and its ppl coz my boyfriend is an african. We enjoyed the best of both world.

By: Lessenor

Lessenor — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:28:41 +0000

i am living in australia, and i just read all these tidbits and gratings. let’s just all try and respect each other’s values and heritage. i am proud of my heritage. i am a cape coloured with cape malay anchestors. let’s just be grateful for this colourful heritage they’ve left us and enjoy something from home. every one has been left with a different version of everything. let’s enjoy this website because it keeps me close to my roots.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:45:45 +0000

I have just gone into this site for the first time and was shocked at the remarks about the pork recipe and the ignorance of people. Instead of berating them why not rather try and help them. If there was less of this type of nastiness and more teaching of cultures then this world would be a far friendlier place.

By: fatima

fatima — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:22:47 +0000

What do you reckon is the possibility of bobotie containing coconut milk in its original incarnations?

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:28:29 +0000

I also took exception to the comment about Afrikaners. Though I’m not one, I have both Afrikaner (and Malay) ancestors and they definitely were not stupid.

Though am Christian I would not even think of eating pork, it is not only a Muslim food taboo. Anyway, give the person that put that recipe on line the benefit of the doubt, who knows, it might even be a Cape Malay.

P.S. I know of Muslims that do eat pork…one used to work with me…

By: Deon

Deon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:58:46 +0000

To all that mekes negative comments of the Afrikaner. Maybe you should address the source of that stupid pork recipe and not generalise. Not all Afrikaners is stupid. We also share our multi-cultural treasures.

Afrikaner

By: Subeiga

Subeiga — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:08:01 +0000

This is for Andrew and Dave. Here are more evidence of the true ethnicity of the Cape Malay people. Cape Malay music has been of great interest to academics, historians, musicologists, writers and even politicians. The well-known annual Cape Town Minstrel or Carnival street festival is a deep-rooted Cape Malay cultural event; it incorporates the Cape Malay comic song or moppie (often also referred to as ghoema songs). The barrel-shaped drum, called the ‘ghoema’, is also closely associated with Cape Malay music. Cape Malay music it is often described and perceived as ‘sad’ and ‘emotional’ in content and context. This style is unique in South Africa, Africa and in the world. I tell my children stories of the first Java people and how they stood up against oppression, when no other minority group even considered going up against colonial power in the early 17 hundreds . This shows the strength even today of the Malay people who helped fight oppression in this country.

By: Subeiga

Subeiga — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:18:42 +0000

This is for Andrew and Dave.The Cape Malay community is an ethnic group or community in South Africa. It takes its name from the present-day Western Cape of South Africa and the people originally from the Malay archipelago, mostly Javanese from Indonesia. These immigrants started this community in South Africa. The community’s earliest members were enslaved Javanese transported by the Dutch East India Company. They were followed by political dissidents and Muslim religious leaders who opposed the Dutch presence in what is now Indonesia and were sent into exile. Starting in 1654, these resistors were imprisoned or exiled in South Africa by the Dutch East India Company, which founded and used what is now Cape Town as a resupply station for ships traveling between Europe and Asia. They were the group that first introduced Islam to South Africa.

By: NINA BLAIR

NINA BLAIR — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:46:18 +0000

This is for Andrew and Dave. You clearly do not know what you are talking about. Cape Malays are a very distinctive group in South Africa classified as Cape Malays because of their religious affiliation. In South Africa if you are of east asian descent and not a moslem then you are regarded as “coloured” or indian, terms recognized and used by everyone in South Africa . Do some research before you post a comment.