The Griqua (Afrikaans Griekwa, sometimes incorrectly called Korana) are a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people.

However, they have a unique origin in the early history of the Cape Colony.

Similar to the other Afrikaans-speaking group at the time, the Trekboers, they originally populate the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as semi-nomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.

Also like the Boers, they migrate inland from the Cape, and establish several states in what is now modern South Africa and Namibia.Under Apartheid they are classified as "Coloured" and have since mostly integrated with other mixed populations in South Africa.