The anatomy of a South African genocide : the extermination of the Cape San peoples / Mohamed Adhikari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adhikari, Mohamed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--History.

Genocide.

San (African people)--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--History.

San (African people).

San (African people)--Violence against--South Africa--Cape of Good Hope--History.

History.

South Africa.

South Africa--Cape of Good Hope.

Physical Description:

120 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011.

Summary:

In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the Khomani San who today live in the kalahari Desert in South Africa, lamented, "We have been made in to nothing." His comment applies equally well to the fate of 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. But during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch-speaking pastoralists who infiltrated the Cape Interior dispossessed its aboriginal inhabitants. Where confronted with resistance, colonists formed mounted militia units with the express purpose of destroying San bands. This ensured the virtual extinction of the Cape San peoples. In Anatomy of a South African Genocide, Mohamed Adhikari persuasively presents the annihilation of Cape San society as case of genocide.

Mohamed Adhikari lectures in the Department of Historical studies,. University of Cape Town. His books include Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community:(Ohio University Press) and' "Let Us Live for Our Children": The Teachers' League of South Africa, 1913-1940, and he coedited; South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid(Ohio University Press). Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"First published 2010 by UCT Press, an imprint of Juta and Company Ltd. [...] South Africa."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821419878

0821419870

OCLC:

724662673