The Khoisan people from Southern Africa maintained ancient lifestyles as hunter-gatherers or pastoralists up to modern times, though little else is known about their early history. Here we infer early ...

Some 22,000 years ago, they were the largest group of humans on earth: the Khoisan, a tribe of hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. Today, only about 100,000 Khoisan, who are also known as Bushmen, ...

NINE Khoisan activists were arrested yesterday for smashing up a mosaic bench the City had erected three years ago in the CBD in honour of legendary Khoisan descendant Krotoa van Meerhoff. The bench ...

South African authorities on Monday cleared a camp of the Khoisan community squatting on the grounds of the government headquarters in Pretoria for six years to demand recognition as the country’s ...

When Professor Henry Charles“Jatti” Bredekamp began his career as a historian of early Cape Town in South Africa, there was still a commonly held myth that the region's native people, the Khoisan , ...

Government has encouraged the Khoisan community to participate in shaping legislation as Parliament considers the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Bill. Image: SANews on Facebook The Presidency ...

A Khoisan person protests with others belonging to the Khoisan Aboriginal People's Party outside the South African Parliament in Cape Town in 2009. The Khoisan were protesting their exclusion from the ...

Scientists have found a deep genetic link between populations in eastern and southern Africa that speak non-Bantu languages characterized by click consonants. These populations—which are known to ...

The hunter-gatherer and pastoralist peoples of southern Africa who speak indigenous non-Bantu languages called Khoisan have intrigued researchers for a long time because their languages contain highly ...

Cape Town - The Dutch government had to acknowledge its historic "debt of honour" to the Khoisan people of South Africa, campaigner for Khoisan rights Dr Willa Boezak said on Saturday. In a speech ...