The San were hunter-gatherers. Before the migration of the Bantu, the San inhabited the entire southern Africa region. They did not have a permanent place to live. Instead, they carefully would plan to migrate seasonally between mountain ranges and coastlines for plant foods, and would take shelter in caves, rocky overhangs and other temporary shelters.
These people did not domesticate animals, and even though they have a vast knowledge of flora and fauna, they did not cultivate crops.
During the beginning of the Christian Era, another type of tribe called Khoihoi began to move southward from the sub-Saharan desert. Then the Bantu began southward also, bringing the ideas of settled life in villages and farming.
Because the San were hunter-gatherers, they couldn't live with settled community. The San fought against the Bantu, but were at a disadvantage with numbers and lack of weapons.When Europeans came, they fought with their lives, even though they had much fewer people and lack of advance weapons. Those that were caught, were forced into slavery.Colonialism would destroy the San's migrating way of life.
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