Khoisan seek better recognition

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Activists have been camping outside the seat of government, demanding the official recognition of their languages and to negotiate land ownership.

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King Khoisan South Africa poses for a photograph at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, on September 22, 2020.PRETORIA - A giant bronze statue of Nelson Mandela overlooks a big black tarpaulin tent that has become a fixture on the emerald lawns of the South African president's office in Pretoria.

They also want the word"coloured" - the mixed-race tag they have been carrying since apartheid and which is still largely used in official documents - to be abolished. Union Buildings is an imposing 110-year-old structure that has housed colonial, apartheid and democratic leaders including Mandela and now President Cyril Ramaphosa.Sona Khoisan praise singer criticised

But some of the Khoisan remain unsatisfied, and see the law as the starting point for a constitutional and cultural struggle. The Khoisan have been referred to in the past as"Bushmen" - and when the Dutch settlers landed in South Africa in the 17th century, they called them Hottentots, a word derived from the famous clicks in their languages.

The virus"lockdown put a magnifying glass on the inequality that we have inherited," said Denver Toroga, a Khoisan-language activist and poet.

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Coloured nationalists and their European uncles think black South Africans are fools, but I don't blame them, many are indeed fools. A white supremacist coins the term khoisan in the 19th century and it is formerly adopted by Coloured cultural appropriators after apartheid.

Give them a voice only indigenous people in SA

They must conduct DNA tests

The SA Government is disgusting. It refuses to acknowledge the existence of the Khoi San as it will rip apart their own expropriation without compensation vendetta / narrative. We know the truth!

They need to start recognizing themselves first and stop calling themselves colored or acting like they are separate from Africans.

Yes give them what they want. They were the first people to see the Dutchman and the British people before other tribes. Include their language as the 13 official language and broadcast about their tribe more in order for us understand the language

.ok i think lets give them namibian desert aswell

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