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Another look at ‘Khoikhoi’ and related ethnonyms [PDF]
Acta Academica, 2011 The nomadic pastoralists formerly called “Hottentots” are today known as the Khoikhoi, a term also encountered as Khoekhoe, often abbreviated as Khoe.
Peter E. Raper
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A Chewable Cure “Kanna”: Biological and Pharmaceutical Properties of Sceletium tortuosum [PDF]
Molecules, 2021 Sceletium tortuosum (L.) N.E.Br. (Mesembryanthemaceae), commonly known as kanna or kougoed, is an effective indigenous medicinal plant in South Africa, specifically to the native San and Khoikhoi tribes.
Madira Coutlyne Manganyi +3 more
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Multiple exostoses and an osteochondroma in a Pliocene canid from Langebaanweg 'E' Quarry (South Africa). [PDF]
J AnatOverview of XS of pathological radius. Using anatomical descriptions, CT scanning and bone histology, we investigate several skeletal overgrowths of bone (exostoses) in the skeleton of a jackal‐like canid from the world famous Langebaanweg, a Mio‐Pliocene locality in South Africa.
Chinsamy A, Valenciano A.
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Population Ecology and Harvesting of Rooibos (<i>Aspalathus linearis</i>) and Its Ecotypes in the Wild, South Africa. [PDF]
Plant Environ InteractABSTRACT Aspalathus linearis (‘rooibos’) is a polymorphic perennial shrub native to the drier, northwestern part of the Fynbos Biome in the Cape Floristic Region. It is cultivated on a large scale and wild‐harvested on a small scale to produce rooibos tea, a traditional herbal drink.
Kraaij T, Pretorius GCP.
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The Ethnonyms ≠Aunin, Topnaars, and !Naranin
Names, 2010 The ≠Aunin, also called Topnaars and !Naranin, are an exceptional people, currently regarded as Nama (Khoikhoi) but thought to be originally San (Bushmen).
Peter E Raper
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Reinterpreting Millenarian Sentiments at the Dutch Cape Colony
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2023 During the long nineteenth century, European colonists, in among others Asia and Africa, were often confronted with self-proclaimed prophets who predicted an apocalyptic uprising which would bring about a new era of peace and independence from European ...
Anne Marieke van der Wal
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Voor 1652 – Vakhistorici se interpretasies van die vroeë SuidAfrikaanse geskiedenis
Contree, 2012 During the last few decades scholars from various disciplines, such as paleonthology, archeology, anthropology and linguistics, have steadily increased our knowledge of early South African history.
Pieter de Klerk
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The black female body: Representation of the erotic in contemporary visual art in Africa
E-REA, 2021 Black sexual politics and its interaction with the eroticized female body in African art are still surprisingly underexplored topics in African academia (“African” not “Africanist”, to follow the distinction made by Jones in “African Scholarship ...
Tayler FRIAR
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Contree, 2010 During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a number of European countries founded settlements on the American and African continents. The colonizing powers sent settlers from Europe and slaves from Africa and Asia to their colonies.
Pieter De Klerk
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Ilha do Desterro, 2011 Opening with a brief historical contextualisation, the article takes the reader back to humanity’s prehistoric origins in southern Africa, then to its (and mankind’s) earliest known culture, that of the San/Bushmen, followed by the (returning ...
Annie Gagiano
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