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Group of peoples, speaking closely related Khoisan languages,
who were among the first indigenous southern Africans
encountered by Europeans. The precontact Khoekhoe were
pastoralists who tended large herds of cattle and sheep. By 1800
Khoekhoe societies south of the Orange River in Cape Colony had
been largely destroyed by disease and warfare, with the remnants
either serving as bonded labourers for white farmers or blending
into frontier communities of mixed descent, such as the Griqua.
North of the Orange River in Namibia, the Nama are the largest
Khoekhoe ethnic group, numbering about 230,000. Variants of
KHOEKHOE Khoekhoe or Khoikhoi formerly Hottentot (pejorative)
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