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Why the whole of South Africa does not belong to Cape Coloureds or the KhoiSan...

It really puzzles me when Cape Coloured people claim that South Africa belongs to coloured / KhoiSan descendants because; 

• they are more Eurasian than they are KhoiSan. Us black "Bantu people" in the east of South Africa are more KhoiSan than they are. We still use the actual (c, ch, gc, gq, gx, q, qh, x, xh) clicks in our languages that we got from the San. Most Nguni people have San & some Khoi ancestry. Genetic samples show that Nguni people have anything between 2-10% KhoiSan DNA. 

• There is a group of San in Botswana & Khoi in Namibia who live on their own land & not once did they claim the whole of Botswana or Namibia. I guess they figured that they can't claim a land who's borders were made in Berlin. 

• The Khoi or San are NOT the first group of Homo Sapiens to live in South Africa. There was a non-KhoiSan group of Homo Sapiens that lived in Sibudu Cave by Durban 77 000 years ago, over 50 000 years before the Khoi & San arrived in South Africa. 

• Lastly, the San lived to the west of the Drakensberg Mountains, whether they were driven away by arriving Sotho-Tswana tribes or left before the arrival of Sotho-Tswana tribes around 800 AD is up to archaeological findings. The Khoi & NamaKhoi live in the far west of South Africa & Namibia. Ironically, the Khoi are portrayed as having a more Bantu lifestyle than the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of the San. 

Just four points that should shut down this ludicrous land claim of people who are more genetically European than many Europeans today. Cape Coloureds, are maternal descendants of the KhoiSan, they could ask KhoiSan chiefs whether they have land in the western half of South Africa but as they were initially fathered by Europeans & Malaysians, they might have a stronger claim to European or Malaysian land in their ancestral paternal lands. 

The KhoiSan descend from the Hadza & Twa, tribes that are 100% black. So you can't claim that either the Khoi or San were a special non-black race of people neither.  

Even if the true KhoiSan claimed land in South Africa, they could only claim lands in the western half of South Africa & not the whole of South Africa. Various Nguni clans could do rock paintings so to claim the rock paintings across South Africa are a uniquely San creation is incorrect. 

I'm guessing some coloured supremacist woke up one day & thought he could pull a fast one over black people by claiming Cape Coloureds are more KhoiSan than actual black people & claiming the entire expanse of South Africa belongs to them. But, hopefully, we have disproved both lies today. We can all live in peace as different races & ethnicities in our respective regions.


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