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The Khoesan were the first people in Africa to undergo the full rigours of European colonisation. By the early nineteenth century, they had largely been brought under colonial rule, dispossessed of their land and stock, and forced to work as labourers for farmers of European descent. Nevertheless, a portion of them were able to regain a degree of freedom and maintain their independence by taking refuge in the mission stations of the Western and Eastern Cape, most notably in the Kat River valley. For much of the nineteenth century, these Khoesan people kept up a steady commentary on, and intervention in, the course of politics in the Cape Colony. Through petitions, speeches at meetings, letters to the newspapers and correspondence between themselves, the Cape Khoesan articulated a continuous critique of the oppressions of colonialism, always stressing the need for equality before the law, as well as their opposition to attempts to limit their freedom of movement through vagrancy legislation and related measures. This was accompanied by a well-grounded distrust, in particular, of the British settlers of the Eastern Cape and a concomitant hope, rarely realised, in the benevolence of the British government in London. Comprising 98 of these texts, These Oppressions Won't Cease - an utterance expressed by Willem Uithaalder, commander of Khoe rebel forces in the war of 1850-3 - contains the essential documents of Khoesan political thought in the nineteenth century. These texts of the Khoesan provide a history of resistance to colonial oppression which has largely faded from view. Robert Ross, the eminent historian of precolonial South Africa, brings back their voices from the annals of the archive, voices which were formative in the establishment of black nationalism in South Africa, but which have long been silenced.

Khoikhoi (African people) --- Hottentot (African people) --- Hottentots --- Khoe (Khoikhoi people) --- Khoi (African people) --- Khoikhoin (African people) --- Ethnology --- Khoisan (African people) --- History --- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) --- Sources. --- Politics and government --- Political activity --- South Africa --- Colonization --- History. --- Africa, South

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The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San 'hunters', the Khoekhoe 'herders' (in the past called 'Hottentots'), and the Damara, also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalahari desert and surrounding areas of Botswana and Namibia. In spite of differences in their way of life, the various groups have much in common, and this book explores these similarities and the influence of environment and history on aspects of Khoisan culture. This is the first book on the Khoisan as a whole since the publication in 1930 of The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa, by Isaac Schapera, doyen of southern African studies.

Bushmen (African tribe) --- Khoikhoi (African people) --- Khoikhoi (Afrikaans volk) --- Khoikhoi (Peuple africain) --- San (African people) --- San (Afrikaans volk) --- San (Peuple africain) --- Khoikhoi (peuple d'Afrique) --- San (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Khoisan (African people) --- Khoisan (African people). --- Khoi-San (African people) --- Ethnology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Basarwa (African people) --- Bushmen --- Bushmen (African people) --- /Xam (African people) --- Hottentot (African people) --- Hottentots --- Khoe (Khoikhoi people) --- Khoi (African people) --- Khoikhoin (African people)