The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples

In 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the +Khomani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert...
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Author: Mohamed Adhikari
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The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples by Adhikari, Mohamed

The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples

$67.75

The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples

$67.75
Author: Mohamed Adhikari
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch-speaking pastoralists who infiltrated the Cape interior dispossessed its aboriginal inhabitants. In response to indigenous resistance, colonists formed mounted militia units known as commandos with the express purpose of destroying San bands. This ensured the virtual extinction of the Cape San peoples. In The Anatomy of a South African Genocide, Mohamed Adhikari examines the history of the San and persuasively presents the annihilation of Cape San society as genocide.



Author: Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 09/16/2011
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780821419878


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 32

About the Author

Mohamed Adhikari lectures in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town. His books include "Let Us Live for Our Children" The Teachers'League of South Africa, 1913-1940, and he coedited South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid (Ohio, 2000).


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