Kharakhoen

The ǃKharakhoen, also known as the Fransman Nama, are one of the Nama peoples of southern Namibia. The dry Auob River crosses the sandy Kalahari country associated with their later settlement at Gochas. Around the beginning of the nineteenth century the ǃKharakhoen lived farther south, near the Karas Mountains. At the same time, Oorlam communities moving north from the Cape were entering the lands of the Nama, changing relationships across the southern interior.