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What is a Griqua?

What is a Griqua? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.
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They had left Mr. and Mrs. Hughes at Griqua Town, where they were to remain for a season.
The Griqua were to see little of the wealth that was to be generated from the enormous diamond mines.
Three histories and a novel lie open in front of me, all having to do with the Griqua people of South Africa.
The cattle had been secured by Griqua Adam, the gates were closed, the sentinels posted, and the outworks were nearly completed.
He was a remarkable leader whose vision has guided and united the Griqua people for 100 years.
A group of Griqua sold their lands in the Orange River Valley to Boers and migrated across the Drakensberg into land depopulated by the Zulus.

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