Academic book
Kraal and Castle: Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa
- Authors
- Richard Elphick
- Year
- 1977
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
Study of Khoikhoi society and the growth of Dutch colonial power at the Cape.
Events using this source
c. 1480 (before Dias)Khoikhoi pastoral communities occupy the Cape before recorded Portuguese contactFrom 1652VOC begins sustained livestock barter with Khoikhoi communities18 July 1673Second Khoikhoi–Dutch War begins1676VOC launches a renewed campaign against the Cochoqua25 June 1677Cochoqua submission ends the seventeenth-century Khoikhoi–Dutch war20 July–August 1693VOC backs rival captain Koopman in an attack on Dorha