Khoikhoi in a sentence

Some Khoikhoi were used as commandos in raids against other Khoikhoi and later Xhosa.

This was done primarily to ensure that the descendants of the Khoikhoi, the San, the Griquas and others could lodge their claims.

By 1700, the traditional Khoikhoi lifestyle of pastoralism had disappeared and following British rule in 1795, the establishment of the Cape's socio-political foundations were firmly laid.

During the following decade, pressure on the Khoikhoi grew as more of the Dutch became free burghers, expanded their landholdings, and sought pastureland for their growing herds.

His action was hastened by the fact that the Khoikhoi, deserting their former masters, flocked to the British standard.

In 1659 Doman, a Khoikhoi who had worked as a translator for the Dutch and had even traveled to Java, led an armed attempt to expel the Dutch from the Cape peninsula.

Initially, the Dutch East India Trading Company considered enslaving men from the indigenous Khoikhoi population, but the idea was rejected on the grounds that such a policy would be both costly and dangerous.

In the beginning, the settlers traded with the Khoikhoi but the harsh working conditions and low wages imposed by the Dutch led to a series of wars.

Most Khoikhoi had chosen not to labor for the Dutch because of low wages and harsh conditions.

Slachter's Nek A farmer named Frederick Bezuidenhout refused to obey a summons issued on the complaint of a Khoikhoi, and, firing on the party sent to arrest him, was himself killed by the return fire.

The Khoikhoi had arrived in these parts about fifteen hundred years before. citation They were called Hottentots by the Dutch, a term that has now come to be regarded as pejorative.

The Khoikhoi had lost economic and political independence and had been absorbed into Boer society.

The Khoikhoi received copper, iron, tobacco, and beads in exchange.

The land around the cape was home to the Khoikhoi people when the Dutch first settled there in 1652.

Thereafter, Khoikhoi society in the western Cape disintegrated.

The settlement also started to expand northward, but Khoikhoi resistance, raids, and guerrilla warfare slowed the expansion during the 18th century.

They traded tobacco, copper and iron with the Khoikhoi in exchange for fresh meat.

War broke out again in 1673 and continued until 1677, when Khoikhoi resistance was destroyed by a combination of superior European weapons and Dutch manipulation of divisions among the local people.