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Khoikhoi
Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe (/ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ KOY-koy) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa. They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San (literally "foragers") peoples, the accepted term for the two people being Khoisan. The designation "Khoikhoi" is actually a kare, or praise address, not an ethnic endonym, but it has been used in the literature as an ethnic term for Khoe-speaking peoples of Southern Africa, particularly pastoralist groups, such as the Inqua, Griqua, Gonaqua, Nama, Attequa. The Khoekhoe were once known as Hottentots, a term now considered
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
South African politician (1819–1901)
Piet Joubert
South African politician and general (1834–1900)
Piet Retief
Afrikaner pioneer (1780–1838)
Griqua people
Southern African ethnic group
William Froude
British engineer and naval architect (1810–1879)
Nongqawuse
Nongqawuse (; c. 1841 – 1898) was a Xhosa prophet. Her prophecies resulted in a millenarian belief that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing and famine of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
South African politician (1873-1932)
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
German linguist (1827-1875)
John Tengo Jabavu
South African Xhosa newspaper editor (1859-1921)
Elizabeth Maria Molteno
Prominent early advocate of civil and women's rights in South Africa (1852-1927)
Hendrik Potgieter
Voortrekker and South African politician (1792-1852)
Roland Trimen
British entomologist (1840-1916)

Abdullah Abdurahman
South African politician and physician (1872–1940)
Z. D. Mangoaela
South African folklorist and author (1883–1963)
Sarel Cilliers
Voortrekker leader and preacher (1801–1871)
Winifred Hoernlé
South African anthropologist and social reformer
Z. K. Matthews
Bamangwato academic in South Africa (1901-1968)
Gideon Brand van Zyl
former Governor-General of South Africa
Maria Wilman
South African botanist, archaeologist and museum director (1867—1957)
Stephanus Schoeman
President of the South African Republic (Transvaal, 1810-1890)
Gerrit Maritz
Afrikaner pioneer and leader (1797-1838)
Adam Kok III
South African politician (1811–1875)
Louis Tregardt
South African explorer (1783-1838)
William Henry Finlay
South African astronomer (1849–1924)

Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith
Spanish noble (1798-1872)
Louise Juta
Karl Marx's sister (1821–1893)
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
civil servant, South African statesman (1808-1881)
Racheltjie de Beer
Afrikaner heroine
Piet Uys
Voortrekker leader (1797–1838)

Annie Botha
South African politician
Nicolas Smit
South African politician (1837-1896)
James Percy FitzPatrick
South African businessman and writer (1862-1931)
Gordon Sprigg
British administrator, politician and prime minister of Cape Colony (1830–1913)
Lukas Johannes Meyer
South African politician (1846-1902)
Marie Koopmans-De Wet
South African activist
Jan Kock
South African politician (1835–1899)
John Carruthers Beattie
first principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town from 1918 to 1937
Ella Campbell Scarlett
British physician and naturalist (1864–1937)
John Robert Dunn
South African hunter, settler and diplomat

Rufane Shaw Donkin
British Army general (1773-1841)
Alice Kinloch
South African human rights activist
Robert Tressell
Irish novelist and political activist (1870-1911)

Daisy de Melker
South African nurse

H. B. Thom
South African historian (1905–1983)
Louw Wepener
Afrikaner military leader
Charles Sydney Goldman
British politician (1868–1958)
Emma Sandile
George Patching
South African athletics competitor (1886–1944)

Richard Stuttaford
South African politician (1870-1945)

John Spurgeon Henkel
South African botanist (1871-1962)
Peter Johannes Potgieter
South African politician- First Burgemeester of Pretoria
Abraham Faure
Dutch Reformed Church clergyman in South Africa, 1795-1875
William Henry Solomon
South African Chief Justice from 1927-1929
Baron von Ludwig
German-born pharmacist, businessperson, natural history collector and patron of the natural sciences

Zara Schmelen
South African Bible translator
Henry Taberer
South African cricketer (1870-1932)