The indigenous people of South Africa who have lived there for over 100,000 years are the light skin KoiKoi and the San, more commonly known in the West as Bushmen. They used to roam all over the territory that is South Africa today and beyond. 200 years ago the Bantu tribes started invading their territory, first the Xhosa tribe of which Mandela belongs and later the Zulu tribe invaded. The KoiKoi/San people did not put up a fight and were pushed to a remote NorthWest corner of the country by the Black invaders from the North. It has to be mentioned that the KoiKoi/San people are thought to be the first human beings on earth from whom all other humans have originated.

down Africa from West and mostly Central Africa .only a few hundred years ago-but before Whites came (about 400 to 500 years ago-not as little as 200years ago)The Bantu tribes stopped their migration more or less where Eastern Cape Province is today,eg Port Elizabeth The first Whites settlers came from Europe(Holland/France Hugenots a little later) around same time as Antisemite Governor Peter Stuyvesant was in Nieew Amsterdam (New York)

as the Dutch established their colony in the Cape of Good Hope. It was a trickle of them at first and then the big wave of invasions happened 200 years ago when additional Xhosa arrived from the North followed by the Zulu. KoiKoi are traditionally hunters/gatherers and the group that split from them to become fishermen are known as San, but both groups are essentially the same people. More KoiKoi can be found in Namibia and Botswana. Their language has click sounds with the tongue and maybe that is where the name Koi comes from.