Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… , however, depopulated the region in 1823; and so, the land appeared empty when Voortrekkers arrived. To understand … it is today, that is, it was warmer and wetter. But better land was available elsewhere, and agropastoralists did not … would have been separated from the next chiefdom by empty land. The degree and nature of interaction between BaFokeng …