The Anatomy of a South African Genocide
The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples
By Mohamed Adhikari
In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the ‡Khomani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, lamented, “We have been made into nothing.” His comment applies equally to the fate of all the hunter-gatherer societies of the Cape Colony who were destroyed by the impact of European colonialism. Until relatively recently, the extermination of the Cape San peoples has been treated as little more than a footnote to South African narratives of colonial conquest.During
African History · Violence in Society · Political Science, Genocide · South Africa · Cape San · African Studies
