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| Title: | Khoikhoi and the founding of White South Africa |
| Author: | Elphick, Richard |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Pages: | 266 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New history of Southern Africa series |
| City of publisher: | Johannesburg |
| Publisher: | Ravan Press |
| ISBN: | 0869752308 |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | Khoikhoi history ethnic groups |
| Abstract: | This study deals only with the Khoikhoi dwelling in the modern Cape Province (South Africa) south of the Orange River Valley and west of the area already occupied by Bantu-speaking negroes in the 17th century. Within 60 years of the founding of the Dutch refreshment station at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, their economy, social structure and political order had almost entirely collapsed. This cannot be explained purely in military terms, neither can it be seen merely as a result of the smallpox epidemic of 1713, even though this swept away the bulk of the Western Cape Khoikhoi population. Khoikhoi decline was far advanced and probably irreversible well before this final catastrophe. The four parts of the work each attempt to explain one aspect of Khoikhoi collapse. Part 1 reconstructs the precolonial social history of the Khoikhoi. Parts 2 and 3 investigate interaction between Khoikhoi and Europeans, 1488-1701. Part 4 describes the final collapse of Khoikhoi society in the first two decades of the 18th century. |