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A Forgotten First People : The Southern Cape Hessequa

Author :  Michael De Jongh (Ed) Mike Kantey

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Country
South Africa
Publisher
The Watermark Press, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
ISBN 9780620693196
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2016
Bib. Info xvi, 124p. ; b/w & colour ; illus., maps. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Product Weight 350 gms.
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A book about the pastoralists who lived in the Southern Cape long before the arrival of the colonists The Hessequa, who pastured their cattle along the south-east Cape coast between the present-day towns of Swellendam and Albertinia - and beyond - long before the arrival of the European colonists . They're better described as a ‘Khoekhoe community,’ rather than what the early history books pejoratively called. ‘Hottentots.’ In the current dynamic debate in South Africa about the rights of cultural and linguistic minorities, however, the voices of their descendants are not being heard, nor are they appropriately acknowledged by the powers that be. By writing about them and taking up their cause, Mike de Jongh opens a window on their history, their current lives, and their rightful place in the present-day Republic of South Africa

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