The southern-most parts of southern Africa were settled in the early first millenium by Bantu-speaking farming communities. Prior to this much of the region was inhabited by other groups who have remained rather enigmatic (for example, the vanished “Mountain Bushmen”). In the western parts of Southern Africa, the people who we today refer to as the ‘KhoeSan’ are well known because may communities are still around and early European settlers wrote about their encounters with the KhoeSan. [Read More]