Chronology -- Definitions of genocide -- Introduction: Settler colonialism and San society -- Colonial expansion through the eighteenth century -- The dynamic of conflict on the frontier under Dutch rule -- Attrition under British colonial rule -- A case of genocide? -- Conclusion: Xaa-ttin's lament
Summary
In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the! homani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, lamented, "We have been made into nothing." His comment applies equally to the fate of all the hunter-gatherer societies of the Cape Colony who were destroyed by the impact of European colonialism. Until relatively recently, the extermination of the Cape San peoples has been treated as little more than a footnote to South African narratives of colonial conquest. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch-speaking pastoralists who infiltrated the Cape interior dispossessed
Notes
"First published 2010 by UCT Press, an imprint of Juta and Company Ltd. ... South Africa."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-112) and index
