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San, The
The San, or Bushmen, were encountered by Europeans in South Africa as the latter moved away from
their original enclave at the Cape. The San were a hunter-gatherer people organised into tribal groups
and driven by more recent arrivals to the marginal lands. They hunted with poisoned arrows which,
when hard-pressed, they turned against other men. The expansion of the Afrikaners’ territory led to
conflict and the settlers devised the commando as a fighting unit to overcome the San. In the 1770s
vigorous campaigning against the San took place. In 1774 a commando of 250 white men killed some
500 San and captured 239 more, while the leader of another commando claimed to have killed or
captured 3,200 San in the space of six years. By the end of the 18th century a bounty was offered for
the taking of the San alive in an attempt to prevent their complete extermination. The San survive in
small numbers.
See also:
KhoiKhoi, The; Xhosa, The; Zulu, The.
Reference:
Troup, Freda, South Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
Sand River Convention,
1852
After Natal had come under British rule in 1845, Afrikaner groups under the leadership of Hendrick
Potgieter and Andries Pretorius established themselves to the north, in the Transvaal. The territory
was far from the British Cape Colony and Natal, from the squabbles of the Afrikaners, and from their
disputes with the black Africans to the north, east and west. Moreover, the land was of no
commercial value. There was, therefore, little difficulty in agreeing to the independence of the
Transvaal, with certain conditions. The Boers agreed to ban slavery and the British to forbid all trade
in arms with Africans and to refrain from entering into treaties with African peoples north of the Vaal.
This led to three republics in the territory, Zoutpansberg, Lydenburg and Potchefstroom, which
together became the South African Republic.
See also:
Bloemfontein Convention, 1864; Great Trek.
Reference:
Troup, Freda, South Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
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