History of South Africa
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The first modern humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. South Africa's first known inhabitants have been collectively referred to as the Khoisan, the Khoekhoe
Looking out over the floodplains of the Luvuvhu River (right) and the Limpopo River (far distance and left)
Statue of Bartolomeu Dias at the High Commission of South Africa in London. He was the first European navigator to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa.
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company (VOC). The Dutch East India Company was a major force behind the Golden Age of Dutch exploration (c. 1590s–1720s) and Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s–1670s).
View of Table Bay with ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), c. 1683.
Khoekhoe
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Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa. They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San peoples, the accepted term for the two people
A Khoekhoe man
Nomadic Khoekhoe dismantling their huts, by Samuel Daniell (1805)
Adam Kok, leader of the Griqua nation
Khoekua marksmen played a key role in the Cape Frontier Wars.