Khoisan

Khoisan is a collective name for the non-Bantu peoples of southern and eastern Africa, and their languages are not demonstrably related. The San of the Kalahari lived in small mobile bands, as did the Hadza of Tanzania around Lake Eyasi, while the Khoikhoi, among them the Nama and Damara, kept cattle and sheep.

Their largest populations lived where the climate did not suit Bantu sorghum farming, from the Cape to Namibia and Botswana. In 1652 the Dutch East India Company founded a colony at the Cape, where Khoikhoi kept large herds.