The anatomy of a South African genocide : the extermination of the Cape San peoples

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adhikari, Mohamed, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Genocide.

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

San (African people).

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cape Town UCT Press 2014

[Place of publication not identified] UCT Press 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Dutch-speaking pastoralists who infiltrated the Cape interior dispossessed its aboriginal inhabitants and damaged the environment with their destructive farming and hunting practices. In response to indigenous resistance, colonists formed armed, mounted militia units known as commandos with the express purpose of destroying San bands. Pervasive settler violence ensured the virtual extinction of the Cape San peoples. In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the ≠Khomani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert, lamented '... we have been made into nothing'. His comment applies to the fate of all the hunter-gatherer societies of the Cape Colony who were destroyed by the impact of European colonialism.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-77582-177-3

9780821444009