<P> The Khoikhoi (updated orthography Khoekhoe, from Khoekhoegowab Khoekhoen (kxhoekxhoen); formerly also Hottentots) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist non-Bantu indigenous population of southwestern Africa . They are grouped with the hunter - gatherer San under the compound term Khoisan . The name Khoikhoi is the native self - designation, khoe - khoe, as it were "men of men, proper humans", from khoe "human being". </P> <P> While it is clear that the presence of the Khoikhoi in southern Africa predates the Bantu expansion, it is not certain by how much, possibly in the Late Stone Age, or displaced by the Bantu expansion to Southeastern Africa . The Khoikhoi maintained large herds of Nguni cattle in the Cape region at the time of Dutch colonisation in the 17th century . Their nomadic pastoralism was mostly discontinued in the 19th to 20th century . </P>

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