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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IN recent times a few efforts were made to bring together what was termed the First Nations of the Khoisan, namely, the Nama, the Basters, the San, the Griekwa, and the Coloureds in a political block ...

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 ...

The Khoisan are South Africa's oldest inhabitants but across the region they have often found themselves marginalised and dispossessed. But in South Africa's Northern Cape province a small group of ...

Former Khoisan soldiers have lost a court bid to be considered for re-integration into the SA National Defence Force (SANDF). The High Court in Pretoria dismissed an application on Friday by the ...