Group
Khoikhoi
The Khoikhoi ("people people" or "real people") or Khoi, in standardised Khoekhoe/Nama orthography spelled Khoekhoe, are a historical division of the Khoisan ethnic group, the native people of southwestern Africa, closely related to the Bushmen (or San, as the Khoikhoi called them).
They had lived in southern Africa since the 5th century CE.
When European immigrants colonized the area in 1652, the Khoikhoi were practising extensive pastoral agriculture in the Cape region, with large herds of Nguni cattle.
The European immigrants labeled them Hottentots, in imitation of the sound of the Khoisan languages, but this term is today considered derogatory.
Archaeological evidence shows that the Khoikhoi entered South Africa from Botswana through two distinct routes – traveling west, skirting the Kalahari to the west coast, then down to the Cape, and travelling south-east out into the Highveld and then southwards to the south coast.
Most of the Khoikhoi have largely disappeared as a group, except for the largest group, the Namas.
Member Cities
- Brava Shabeellaha Hoose Somalia Location
- Cape Guardafui Bari Somalia Location
- Cape Town (Kaapstad) Western Cape South Africa Location
- East London (Oos-Londen) Eastern Cape South Africa Location
- Gansbaai Western Cape South Africa Location
- Graaff-Reinet Eastern Cape South Africa Location
- Grahamstown Eastern Cape South Africa Location
- Great Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Location
- Hadibu `Adan Yemen Location
- Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa Location
- Kilwa Kisiwani Lindi Tanzania Location
- Kimberley Northern Cape South Africa Location
- Lisbon (Belém) Lisboa Portugal Location
- M'banza Congo Zaire Angola Location
- Malindi Coast Kenya Location
- Mavinga Kuando-Kubango Angola Location
- Mombasa Coast Kenya Location
- Mthethwa Paramountcy KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Location
- N'Dalantando Kwanza Norte Angola Location
- Nongoma KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Location
- Paarl Western Cape South Africa Location
- Pretoria Gauteng South Africa Location
- Sagres Faro Portugal Location
- Santarém Santarem Portugal Location
- Shakaskraal KwaZulu-Natal South Africa Location
- Swellendam Western Cape South Africa Location
- Taung North-West South Africa Location
- Toutswemogala Hill Central District Botswana Location
- Zanzibar Zanzibar Urban/West Tanzania Location