Hessequa, The People of the Forest
If your browser doesn’t show the Play button, visit it directly on Soundcloud. Professor Michael de Jongh talks about the footprint of the early Khoi in the Garden Route. It’s a fascinating, educational that explains that the misspelt “Khoi” should in fact be translated as “Khoe Khoen”. The click in the language was derived from early migrators encountering Bushmen. He laments that the Attaqua, the “light coloured people”, ironically also the “white people”, have been mostly excluded from history. The Outeniqua were the honey gathers. The Gouriqua, along the coast, … Read the full article…