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He is first recorded as a wealthy Khoikhoi businessman, land-owner and community leader among the Gonaqua Khoi people of the Kat River Settlements, near the Eastern Cape frontier. Kat River was a large, successful and predominantly Khoi region of the Cape , that subsisted more or less autonomously.
A Gonaqua man and woman (1839) The Gonaqua (or Ghonaqua or Gonaguas, meaning "borderers") were an Khoikhoi ethnic group, descendants of a very old union between the Khoikhoi and the Xhosa. [1] This union predates the arrival of Europeans in South Africa. The Gonaqua have been regarded as outcasts by the Bantus.
As a young man in the 1830s, he was recorded as a powerful leader of the Gonaqua ("Gona") Khoi at the Kat River Settlements. In 1834, the Surveyor General of the Cape Colony, W.F. Hertzog, recorded him as having originally arrived at Kat River in 1829, among the followers of Khoi leader Kobus Boezak who had migrated from Theopolis.
It consisted mostly of the Khoi chiefdoms (Gonaqua, Hoengeniqua, Inqua and others) that had been displaced by colonists and became incorporated into the Xhosa nation. Khwane kaLungane, a counselor and warrior under King Tshiwo, was chosen to lead the new chiefdom. This marked the start of his Khwane dynasty, which would lead the chiefdom for ...
The Khoikhoi ("men of men") or Khoi are pastoralists of Southwestern Africa. They were once known to Europeans as the Hottentots , a name that is now considered derogatory. The main article for this category is Khoikhoi .
The people were predominantly Afrikaans-speaking Gonaqua Khoi, but the settlement also began to attract other Khoi, Xhosa and mixed-race groups of the Cape. The so-called "Bushman wars" [ year needed ] were to a large extent the response of the San after their dispossession.
Capoid race is a grouping formerly used for the Khoikhoi and San peoples in the context of a now-outdated [1] model of dividing humanity into different races.The term was introduced by Carleton S. Coon in 1962 and named for the Cape of Good Hope. [2]
Hendrik Witbooi (c.1830 – 29 October 1905) [1] was a chief of the ǀKhowesin people, a sub-tribe of the Khoikhoi. He led the Nama people during their revolts against the German colonial empire in present-day Namibia, in connection with the events surrounding the Herero and Namaqua Genocide. He was killed in action on 29 October 1905.