Goringhaiqua

The Goringhaiqua were Khoekhoe herders of the Cape Peninsula, whose cattle grazed on land around Table Bay. After the Dutch established a settlement there in 1652, expanding cultivation restricted access to pasture. A Goringhaiqua man known to the Dutch as Doman, who had served as an interpreter and visited Batavia, helped lead resistance. Fighting broke out in 1659, as Khoekhoe seized settlers' livestock. In 1660 the Goringhaiqua and their neighbours the Gorachouqua made peace with the Dutch East India Company.