This problem can be solved if we conceive of distinct cultures as being delineated by historical conflicts (Niemand, 2015:255). 1 In multicultural society, we see that the minority groups or, more pertinent to the South African context, previously disadvantaged groups, ceded their sovereignty involuntarily, through conquest or colonisation. These conflicts create a delineation between the conquerors and the conquered, so that a definition of the group can take the form of 'those people who were forced to cede sovereignty' in various conflicts, avoiding formulations 1 The notion of delineation through conflict relies to some extent on Henri Tajfel's Social Identity Theory, which has considerable empirical, experimental support (Tajfel, Billig,