Swyqe

The Swy Ei were among the Indigenous communities of the Sneeuberg country on the northeastern frontier of the Cape. Their homeland lay among mountains and the dry plains of the Karoo. During the eighteenth century, trekboer stock farmers pushed into the interior and sought grazing where foraging communities already lived. Resistance grew as farms spread along the escarpment; colonial commandos answered with campaigns that killed and displaced many San people.