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khoisans

KHOISANS (Black Hunter-gatherers and Pastoralists In Southern Africa) South Africa is situated in the southern region of African continent also known as "Land Of The Blacks".but in South Africa we will find many white people along with the blacks.To me being white or black does not matter but the white people in South Africa used to rule over black people and considered them as their slaves. Modern South Africa is composed of many peoples who, as a result of the country's history, fall into four main race-based categories: indigenous Africans or Blacks, Europeans ,Whites, Asians or Indians, and Coloreds. The African majority consists of three main cultural groups: the Khoikhoi, the San or Khoisan people of the Cape region and the Bantus. The so-called Coloreds are mixed of African (mostly Khoisan), European and Malay descent. Together these groups constitute nearly 80% of the South African population. The rest of the population consists of immigrant groups and their descendants. Whites, at 11%, are the largest immigrant group followed by Asians at three percent. Asian presence in South Africa is traceable to 17th century slaves from the Malay peninsula, brought with other slaves from East Africa and Madagascar beginning as early as 1657. Much later, indentured laborers from India(1860) and China (1902)arrived to swell the Asian population. Population (1998): 42 million. Composition--black 78.3%; white 12.7%; colored 8.8%; Asian (Indian) 2.2% ] When someone or something is the first in anything, and you don't know much about it, you are obliged to look into it, so I did.I did a little research on the khoisan people. The ancient people who has been living in this region for thousands of years. Thousands of years before the Europeans ever showed up on Africa's shores, most of southern Africa was inhabited ...

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