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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… time and begin to further colonize and trade with the Khoikhoi at the cape, by the middle this century the first Khoikhoi-Dutch war is fought and slavery is…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… coastline and basic trading takes place between the Khoikhoi and the Europeans. Nguni and Sotho speaking groups … call regularly at Table Bay on their way to…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… moved down towards the Eastern Cape and intermarried with Khoikhoi and San people in the area. Young Nelson Mandela in … westwards in groups they destroyed…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… made from Iron The first farmers’ attitude to the land The Khoikhoi and the San When the first farmers began to move … for the grass to grow back. The first…
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… in South Africa The Empty Land Myth The Dutch and the Khoikhoi The Dutch Settlement Treks & Land conflicts …
English Settlement in South Africa
… occasionally set up along the shores to trade with the Khoikhoi. The British also used Robben Island , located a few … Between 1632 and 1640, the British…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… the Dutch at the Cape Colony only had contact with the Khoikhoi and San peoples. The Dutch farmers moved further … the Dutch farmers met with serious…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed intermittently for … to colonial expansion which in turn…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… a garden was planted and meat was bartered for with the Khoikhoi (who were initially called Goringhaikwa, and later … 1657. The land on which the Dutch…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… through trade with the indigenous population (mainly Khoikhoi) derogatorily referred to as “natives”. From the beginning their relationship with the…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… There were three possible sources of labour, the local Khoikhoi pastoralists, Dutch immigrants or people from … the local population for use as labour…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… acquire domesticated livestock and became pastoralists (Khoikhoi). They move south, and their new socio-economic … order leads them to be anthropologically…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… believed to have first populated Southern Africa 15 CE Khoikhoi herders migrated southward and converted many San to …
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… with surprising honesty, the sentiments expressed by the Khoikhoi leaders at the so-called peace talks in 1660, which brought to a close the first Dutch…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… out in the Cape Colony and wreaks devastation among the Khoikhoi. 1767 A smallpox epidemic breaks out in the Cape Colony and wreaks devastation among the…
ArticleKora
… The Korana or Kora were a nomadic Khoikhoi group that probably derived their name from a chief … to offspring of liaisons between Europeans, slaves and…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… population. Good relations with the indigenous people, the Khoikhoi and the San, were to be maintained. Although Van … years of Van Riebeeck's arrival, the…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… Constantia . 1693: Van der Stel authorises attack on Khoikhoi Captain Dorha and his kraal after the group refused …
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting Gemsbok and other antelope…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… disease or were forced to join other clans for survival. Khoikhoi tribe man from South Africa Image Source The San In … San had their lands invaded by cattle…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… The settlers and government turned to the indigenous Khoikhoi people to fill the labour gap. Local farmers began employing more local Khoikhoi people when…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… labour for extended periods. Others, however, such as the Khoikhoi communities of the south-western Cape, disintegrated … peoples with whom the Dutch first…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… of cattle. In consequence of these repeated attacks, the (Khoikhoi), under the direction of the Missionary, Mr … the sea, should be added to the settlement,…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… and run the refreshment station. At first, the local Khoikhoi were prepared to work from time to time, helping in … people thought he was white. He led a…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… for the Far East, but an uneasy relationship with the Khoikhoi and San and unfavourable climatic conditions forced … Town was claimed by right of conquest by…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… above, slave resistance incorporated other groups such as Khoikhoi and displaced San communities. Some slaves ran away … on the Amersfort ran away and were…
Mission Stations - G-H
… friendly to the exiting government". The dwellings of the Khoikhoi also evicted some comment from Burchell in 1811: … to great drought during the summer. …
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… the way they used to live. Rock paintings The San, and the Khoikhoi, who arrived in southern Africa after the …
ArticleActivity: Human evolution
… when did they arrive? What other names have the San and Khoikhoi been called and why are these names not used today? …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… enslaved members of the indigenous population, mostly the Khoikhoi or San and frequently male for domestic labour, …