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The anatomy of a South African genocide - The extermination of the Cape San peoples (Paperback)
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The anatomy of a South African genocide - The extermination of the Cape San peoples (Paperback)
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In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the Khomani San people, who
today live on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert in the farthest
reaches of South Africa's Northern Cape province, lamented of his
people that'...we have been made into nothing'. The Khomani San are
a tiny remnant of the foraging communities who once inhabited most
of the land area that is now South Africa. Whereas Kruiper was
voicing concern about the marginalisation of the Khomani San in
post-apartheid South Africa, his judgement applies to the fate of
all of the hunter-gatherer societies of the Cape Colony who were
destroyed by the impact of European colonialism during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Much of the dispossession and
slaughter happened under Dutch East India Company rule, with
continued displacement and killing under the relatively benign
auspices of British imperialism. The main agents of destruction
were Dutch-speaking pastoralists whose land-grabbing and farming
practices ensured the virtual extinction of the Cape San peoples.
In South Africa, the nature of these killings has effectively been
ignored and there is woeful public ignorance about the fate of the
country's original inhabitants. Until relatively recently, the
marginalisation of the San has been clearly reflected in the
treatment of their extermination as little more than a footnote,
and none of the recent works that deal with the destruction of San
society explicitly analyse it as a case of genocide. The author
argues that it is, since the group is no longer able to function as
a viable social entity. This book explores the history of the
genocide and its modern outcome.
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