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ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… with different languages and lifeways. Generally, Khoe (KhoiKhoi) pastoralists dominated the area around Port …
PlaceAogutoas, Village near Port Nolloth
… Village at the site of the present Port Nolloth. The Khoikhoi name Aukwatowa; for 'where water took away the old …
PlaceAbees, Bela-Bela
… Old Khoikhoi name for Warmbad. It means 'place of cleansing or …
PlacePorterville
… arrival of Europeans , the area was inhabited by San and Khoikhoi peoples. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a … arrival of Europeans, the area was…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… foiled and Godongwana is sent into exile A large group of Khoikhoi, deserting slaves, San, people of mixed ancestry and … Griqua , a name which has its…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… through trade with the indigenous population (mainly of Khoikhoi extraction) derogatorily referred to as "natives." From the beginning their relationships…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… labour for extended periods. Others, however, such as the Khoikhoi communities of the south-western Cape, disintegrated … they inevitably came into conflict…
PlaceBrandvlei, Karoo
… 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes they used, to make …
EventBartolomeu Dias reaches present Mossel Bay
… he took in fresh water and bartered live-stock from the Khoikhoi. Due probably to a lack of understanding, a crossbow …
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… in 1796 and ministered to slaves and to detribalised Khoikhoi people who worked as labourers to settler farmers. …
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… Copy this table into your workbook. Compare the San, Khoikhoi and the early African farmers. San Khoi-Khoi …
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… is 263 Metres. Elavation above Uitenhage. The name is Khoikhoi meaning: 'Passage where succulents grow'. This is …
Khoisan Identity
… South African history. Indeed, the use of the term ‘Khoikhoi’ meaning ‘men of men’ or ‘people’ actually came to … Cape. There is evidence of intermarriage…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… territory. This expansion was first at the expense of the Khoikhoi and San , but later Xhosa land was taken as well. …
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
… from about 10,000 years ago until they were displaced by Khoikhoi herders from the interior about 400 years ago the … from about 10,000 years ago until they…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… on the contribution of foreign slaves and indigenous Khoikhoi to the historical formation of Afrikaans: these … people are the descendants of Europeans, the…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… Khoin', meaning real people. 2 In this explicit way, the Khoikhoi were named and reified through the grid of European … world. Even a cursory glance at early…
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… missionary-station of Ebenezer, was an original kraal of ( Khoikhoi ); it was secured to them along with a tract of …
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… Admiral Antonio da Saldanha who was wounded there by the Khoikhoi , whilst taking water. In 1601 the name was applied …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… Comrades, Barry Levinrad; My Street, Regina Maphela; The Khoikhoi, Themba Mhambi; The Blood of Poetry, Seitlhamo …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… people. The two missionaries settled among the seven Khoikhoi families in the valley and concentrated on their …
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… and 224 km South-West of Keetmanshoop. Aigams is the Khoikhoi name for Windhoek, comes from 'fire' and 'water' …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… to archaeological finds, the area was home to groups of Khoikhoi (Topnaars) and Aoni, who had lived in the area for …
Slavery in South Africa
… Richard Elphick and Robert Shell, "Intergroup Relations: Khoikhoi, settlers, slaves and free blacks, 1652-1795" in … Richard Elphick and Robert Shell, …
PlaceRehoboth
… lies on a high elevated plateau with several hot springs. Khoikhoi name, of Anis, means 'smoke' from the steam seen, at …
PlacePiquetberg
… have its roots in the conflict between Dutch settlers and Khoikhoi in 1673-76. At that stage the Dutch established a …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… surfaced that he was allegedly mistreating one of his Khoikhoi laborers, he was summoned to appear in a …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… which they assumed after the war. A series of wars between Khoikhoi peoples was instigated by the Dutch settlers in … European diseases (such as small pox)…
PlaceWeenan
… staggering!" Apart from the Voortrekkers, about 250 to 252 Khoikhoi and Basuto (slaves) who accompanied the …
PlaceOld Stables, Oatlands, Simonstown
… likely that these tracks followed earlier tracks of early khoikhoi herdsman who herded their cattle at times seeking …