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Khoekhoe. Khoekhoe ( /ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ KOY-koy) (or Khoikhoi in former orthography) [ a] are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa. They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San (literally "Foragers") peoples. [ 2] The designation "Khoekhoe" is actually a kare or praise address, not an ethnic endonym ...
Strandloper peoples. The Strandlopers are a Khoikhoi -derived people who live by hunting and gathering food along the beaches of south-western Africa, originally from the Cape Colony to the Skeleton Coast . Most Strandloper communities did not persist in the face of demographic and economic changes occurring in southern and south-western Africa ...
The Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars were a series of conflicts that took place in the latter half of the 17th century in what was known then as the Cape of Good Hope (today it refers to a smaller geographic spot), in the area of present-day Cape Town, South Africa, between Dutch colonisers who came from the Netherlands and the local African people, the indigenous Khoikhoi.
At the time of first European settlement in the Cape, the southwest of Africa was inhabited by Khoikhoi pastoralists and hunters, The Khoina ("People") were disgruntled by the disruption of their seasonal visit to the area for which purpose they grazed their cattle at the foot of Table Mountain only to find European settlers occupying and farming the land, leading to the first Khoi-Dutch War ...
The Nama People (or Nama-Khoe people) are the largest group of the Khoikhoi people, most of whom have disappeared as a group, except for the Namas. Many of the Nama clans live in Central Namibia and the other smaller groups live in Namaqualand, which today straddles the Namibian border with South Africa. [ 1]
Sydney, Australia. Occupation (s) Khoi chief and political activist. David Stuurman (c. 1773 – 22 February 1830) [1] was a Khoi chief and political activist who fought against Dutch and British colonial administration. [1] His active career as Khoi leader spanned twenty years (1799-1819) and the three Xhosa Wars which fell within this period.
Thus, the Khoikhoi, in theory, were equal with the Europeans. As in the rest of the British Empire, slaves – estimated to be around 39,000 in number – were emancipated in 1834. This led to the establishment of the Bo-Kaap by a Muslim community after being freed. The Cape Town Legislative Council was also established in the same year.
Archaeological discoveries of livestock bones on the Cape Peninsula indicate that the Khoikhoi began to settle there by about 2000 years ago. [19] In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Portuguese mariners, who were the first Europeans at the Cape, encountered pastoral Khoikhoi with livestock.