The Khoisan encampment being dismantled and removed from the Union Buildings. Photos: Supplied. After nearly seven years of Khoisan protest, the Department of Public Works (DPW) dismantled and removed ...

This press release is available in German. An international team of researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the CNRS in Lyon have investigated the maternally inherited ...

Othering has many manifestations. The Khoisan occupied the Union Buildings grounds because they felt othered. In a lecture by Prof Lehlohonolo Machobane in a class in 1978 at the National University ...

It’s a challenging time for the Khoisan group living outside Union Buildings in Pretoria with eviction looming and their queen having died recently. Queen Khoisan SA, Cynthia Triagaardt, 54, died over ...

TO PRESERVE the Khoisan culture and its language, the Department of Arts and Culture has embarked on research to identify sites which are important to KhoiSan history and heritage. The research will ...

South Africa continues to deal with the legacy of apartheid as its indigenous peoples were dispossessed of their land and their communities and cultures were destroyed as part of that legacy. Diese ...

To grow the Nama language, and to empower the Khoisan heritage in Tsitsikamma, the Tsitsikamma Khoisan Council recently hosted a Basic Nama Language course for the community in early April at The Big ...

Researchers have investigated the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of 500 individuals from southern Africa speaking different Khoisan and Bantu languages. Their results demonstrate that Khoisan ...