Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… in the names of representative bodies such as the Khoi and San Council. It is now also increasingly used in academic … clear what the word actually implied. It is possible that ‘San’ simply meant ‘dwellers’ (Nama sâ ‘rest, repose’) and was … proposed. Whatever its original meaning, the word San may have acquired disparaging connotations simply because …