Known as Saartjie ‘Sarah’ Baartman, she was a South African woman from the Khoikhoi tribe, born in 1789 in the Eastern Cape province. Her body, particularly her large, protruding buttocks ...

The island was first used as a political prison in the mid-1600s; Dutch settlers sent slaves, convicts and indigenous Khoikhoi people who refused to bend to colonial rule. In 1846 the island was ...

Smuts is well known in South Africa as a major historical figure. He helped establish South African autonomy while still a ...

These sites offer an opportunity to connect with the land, reflect on its history, and immerse yourself in the ancient ...

Such dastardly robbery started with the systematic extermination of the Khoikhoi and San who had peopled the Cape for millennia. The white settlers initially related and battered with them, but they ...

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a refreshment station at the Cape, forcibly taking land from the Khoikhoi and San communities to support colonial settlers. This dispossession was ...

Baartman was KhoiKhoi woman who was part of a freak show where her body was on display for everyone to see. Many went to see her because of her large rear-end, making her quite famous in the 19 th ...

The word “chacma” is derived from the Hottentot (Khoikhoi) name for a baboon. Remarkably the Chacma baboons in the cape and along the coastal stretches of the mountain side, have sustained a diet of ...

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