Everything about The Khoikhoi-dutch Wars totally explained
The
Khoikhoi-Dutch Wars were a series of conflicts that took place in the last half of the
1600s in what was known then as the
Cape of Good Hope (today it refers to a smaller geographic spot), in the area of present-day
Cape Town,
South Africa, between
Dutch settlers who came from
The Netherlands and the local
African people, the most prominent being the
Khoikhoi who had lived in that part of the world for millennia.
The arrival of the permanent settlements of the Dutch, under the
Dutch East India Company, at the
Cape of Good Hope in
1652 brought them face to face with the local people, such as the
Khoikhoi (called
Hottentots by the Dutch), the
Khoisan,
Griqua,
Bushmen (also known as the
San), and some
Bantu peoples of South Africa. While the Dutch traded with the Khoikhoi, nevertheless serious disputes broke out over land ownership and livestock. This resulted in attacks and counter-attacks by both sides which were known as the
Khoikhoi-Dutch Wars that ended in the eventual defeat of the Khoikhoi (who also succumbed to the diseases that the White settlers brought, such as measles and smallpox.) The First Khoikhoi-Dutch War took place in
1659, the second in
1673, the third
1674 -
1677.
First Khoikhoi-Dutch War
In
1659 the first of a series of armed confrontations over the ownership of land took place between the Dutch settlers and a Khoikhoi clan led by Doman. The dispute was over cattle. In this first anti-colonial Khoikhoi-Dutch War the settlers sought refuge in the fort they'd built. The Dutch then erected a series of fortified fences along the
Liesbeeck River and an almond hedge in present day
Kirstenbosch to separate the Khoikhoi from their ancestral land and from the Dutch. The Khoikhoi were thus restricted in their movement and were forced to use designated gates when entering the enclosed and fortified areas. |}}
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