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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…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Established for a group of about 600 indigenous Khoikhoi people by Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the … charity and a willingness to pay a fair wage. The…
PlaceTable Bay
… the modern City of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi pastoralists who used it seasonally as pastures for … on the shores of Table Bay they came…
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 …
PlaceAgomed, Eastern Central Namibia
… It means 'wet rump', and given too thirsty, Khoikhoi hunters. Who had found water when they noticed that … had been gone for awhile, had a wet rump when it…
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…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… hunter-gatherers. Then about 2 000 years ago (100 BC), the Khoikhoi herders came South, bringing sheep with them. The way of life of the Khoikhoi herders…
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…
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… for passing ships. By 1659 growing problems with their Khoikhoi neighbours forced the Dutch administration at the … Estate. The Settlement lay in the path…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… conquest of the numerous groups in the region, with the Khoikhoi being among the last to be subdued. In some cases … amounts to genocide in exerting control…
PlaceVissershok Farm
… small ships and possibly barges to trade with the local Khoikhoi . Unlike the Khoisan , who lived in smaller … and survived through hunting and gathering …
PlaceAiab, Stream in Namibia
… Khoikhoi name of the Lewerivier is Aiab. The Khoikhoi language is a National language in Namibia, also … Khoikhoi name of the Lewerivier is Aiab. The…
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…
PlaceGriqualand West
… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist … by more sedentary agriculturalist groups. Originally the Khoikhoi inhabited most of the…
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. …
EventVasco da Gama’s expedition reaches St Helena Bay
… It was here that they had their first encounter with the Khoikhoi. A misunderstanding arose between them, and fearing attack, the Khoikhoi threw spears,…
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
… This Ordinance has been called 'The Magna Carta of the Khoikhoi', as it determined that the Khoikhoi was equal to White people and did not need to carry …
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 …
PlaceAkkoordskop, a Hill in the Western Cape
… between the Dutch sailors aboard the ‘Mauritius’ and the Khoikhoi locals of South Africa near Mossel Bay… The sailors … meat and vegetables, to stop the…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… St Helena, where they had their first encounter with the Khoikhoi (Hottentots). A misunderstanding arose between them, and fearing attack, the Khoikhoi threw…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
… life on the frontier and included portraits of the Khoikhoi and Africans as well as landscapes. …
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? …
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… and the colonists had. The disease was foreign to the Khoikhoi. Hence they had no recourse to indigenous medicines … reason, the indigenous clan names were…