The subjugation of the Khoisan during the 17th and 18th centuries

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Title:	The subjugation of the Khoisan during the 17th and 18th centuries
Authors:	Bredekamp, Henry C. Newton-King, Susie
Year:	1984
Pages:	40
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Bellville
Publisher:	University of the Western Cape
Geographic terms:	South Africa The Cape Netherlands
Subjects:	Khoikhoi San colonization history 1600-1699 1700-1799
Abstract:	The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with a broad and primarily narrative account of the process by which the indigenous Khoisan of the Cape, South Africa, were brought under European control. This process can be divided into three phases: first, the pre-VOC (Dutch East India Company) phase in which the foundations were laid for the Dutch occupation of the Cape; second, the period of political and social breakdown in which the precolonial social structures of the Western Cape Khoikhoi collapsed and the Khoikhoi tribes lost their distinct identities; and third, the long and turbulent process by which Khoisan on the expanding cattle frontier were subordinated to the will of the 'trekboer'.