Results 11 to 20 of about 394 (140)

The interrelatedness between the Nama Khoikhoi supreme being and celestial objects [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
The assumption among Europeans that the Khoikhoi indigenous people of southern Africa had little to no religious beliefs is evident throughout historical documents.
Iwana Hartmann, Maniraj Sukdaven
doaj   +2 more sources

STRATEGIC MILITARY COLONISATION: THE CAPE EASTERN FRONTIER 1806–1872

Scientia Militaria, 2012
The Cape Eastern Frontier of South Africa offers a fascinating insight into British military strategy as well as colonial development. The Eastern Frontier was for over 100 years a very turbulent frontier.
Mark Oranje, Linda Robson
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Common Names and Toponyms in Southern Africa

Names, 2017
The primary process of toponymic formation by the earliest indigenous inhabitants of the African sub-continent, the Bushmen and Khoikhoi, was evolutionary.
Peter E. Raper
doaj   +1 more source

Sketching the Khoikhoi': George French Angas and his depiction of the Genadendal Khoikhoi characters at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1847 [PDF]

, 2007
This article investigates the first and only visit of the British artist George French Angas to the Cape Colony in 1847 with specific reference to four Khoikhoi individuals he had sketched.
Viljoen, Russel Stafford
core   +1 more source

“THE WAR TOOK ITS ORIGINS IN A MISTAKE”: THE THIRD WAR OF DISPOSSESSION AND RESISTANCE IN THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE COLONY, 1799–1803

Scientia Militaria, 2014
The early colonial wars on the Cape Colony’s eastern borderlands and western Xhosaland, such as the 1799–1803 war, have not received as much attention from military historians as the later wars.
Denver Webb
doaj   +1 more source

Multilingual Place Names in Southern Africa

Names, 2019
Numerous place names in southern Africa reveal cultural and language contact between Bushmen (San), Khoikhoi, Bantu and European language speakers over many thousands of years.
Lucie A. Möller
doaj   +1 more source

Engraved in the Landscape: The Study of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Field Names in the Changing Landscape

Names, 2019
The importance of toponym studies for understanding the relationship between people and the place they inhabit has been emphasized by several studies.
Nadja Penko Seidl
doaj   +1 more source

Sudafricani, coloured, griqua: i cerchi concentrici di David’s Story

Altre Modernità, 2019
Invaded, displaced, and dispossessed, the aboriginal Khoisan populations of South Africa were enslaved and pushed to the margins of society well before the arrival of European settlers in the seventeenth century; actually, the Bantu groups which had ...
Giuliana Iannaccaro
doaj   +1 more source

Oor Austro-Nederlands en die oorsprong van Afrikaans

Literator, 2002
On Austro-Dutch and the origin of Afrikaans A widely accepted view of the origin of Afrikaans holds that the new language developed autochthonously, after 1652 when the language of the early Cape settlers was influenced by imported slaves speaking ...
C. de Ruyter, E.F. Kotzé
doaj   +1 more source

The Legal Crisis of Land Restitution in South Africa: A Critical Analysis

Recht in Afrika, 2016
This article argues that land dispossession of the indigenous people (the Khoikhoi and the San) and the black communities in South Africa started long before 1913. The first process of land dispossession commenced when the first Dutch settlers arrived at
Samuel Freddy Khunou
doaj   +1 more source