HIST 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cattle Raiding, San People, Zambezi
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Early modern genocide i: the san people"s struggle with the dutch. The san people: southern africa"s first inhabitants: san lived across southern africa, before khoekhoe (who came south with cattle from the northwest about. 2000 years ago: before bantu (who came south from northeast to farm and raise cattle by. Displacement, but also culture mixing: khoekhoe and bantu-speakers needed access to good pasture and farmland, so they pushed san bands off the most fertile lands before europeans arrived, conflict revealed in san"s name: khoekhoe word meaning bandits or. Where do they live, and how well-off are they: 50,000 in botswana, 40,000 in namibia, 10,000 in south africa, at most. The commando system: policing frontier farms: trekboers were isolated, voc government was limited: it couldn"t (and didn"t want to) send big forces from. *adhikari argues that in these wars, boer commandos committed genocide against the.
