For thousands of years, the Khoikhoi navigated shifting climates, migrating herds, and competing communities while preserving ...

The Khoikhoi are South Africa’s First People — a tribe so ancient that their ancestors walked the region over a quarter of a million years ago. But centuries of colonization nearly erased them. This ...

The Dutch colonial history is littered with blood and tainted with tales of misery of thousands of slaves who were kidnapped and then sold to markets in Europe and America. The Dutch colonized many ...

Sounds of the Khoikhoi language fill a hall at the Castle of Good Hope where classes to teach from South Africa’s oldest indigenous language family are held every weekend. By Yazeed Kamaldien for ...

The ancient origins, anatomical, linguistic and genetic distinctiveness of southern African San and Khoikhoi people are matters of confusion and debate. They are variously described as the world's ...

Language and identity are inextricably interlinked. So what happens when a language dies, or is suppressed? When Katrina Esau spoke to her older sister, Griet Seekoei, they spoke in N|uu. It is a ...

Ever wondered where Knysna, jewel of the Garden Route, got its name? It stems from the Khoikhoi word "naizna", which means ferns. The town, river and lagoon were named after a prominent feature of the ...

Sarah Baartman 'yar kabilar Khoikhoi a birnin Cape Town na Afirka ta Kudu, a 1810 ta yi aiki a gidan wani mutum wanda ya kaita inda aka dauke ta a matsayin dabba, kana ta fuskanci wariya.

Changing from domestic servant to wondrous attraction, Sarah Baartman was considered an ape in Europe. Though people paid in droves to stare at her body, she died in poverty far from her South African ...

Alberto Valenciano Vaquero receives funding from DST-NFR Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (COE2018-09POST and COE2019-PD07) as well as the “Juan de la Cierva Formación” program (FJC2018-036669-I ...

Before his retirement Tim Crowe received funding from the South African National Research Foundation and Department of Science and Technology through an award to the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of ...