KHOI AND SAN

• The contemporary South African population began to appear in the subcontinent some 40 000 years ago. It seems that there is a direct link between the original late Stone Age population which then inhabited South Africa and the Khoisan.

• Khoisan is a combiend word indicating two closely related languages, and population groups, the Khoi and the San. While Khoi is a self-name, San is merely what the Khoi called the group which the later white settlers called bushmen.