Early European visitors to Southern Africa did not know what the people who lived near the coast called themselves. The language they spoke was full of sounds, which Europeans found difficult to pronounce. One of the words that the Khoikhoi used when they danced sounded like "Hottentots". As a result, the Europeans began to call the Khoikhoi ...

 — Spring 1999, vol. 31, no. 1 By Greg Bradsher Enlarge The 90th Division discovered Reichsbank wealth, SS loot, and museum paintings that had been removed from Berlin to a salt mine in Merkers, Germany. View in National Archives Catalog Late on the evening of March 22, 1945, elements of Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army crossed …

The Dutch and the Khoisan. The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) or Dutch East India Company came into being on 20 March 1602 and is seen as the first company that …

 — Though gold mining continued throughout the 1850s, it had reached its peak by 1852, when some $81 million was pulled from the ground. After that year, the total take declined gradually, leveling ...

 — These alloys included various bronzes and tumbaga, a mix of gold with copper and usually some silver. Tumbaga looks just like gold, leading the Spaniards to believe that there was far more gold than there really was. The rest, as they say, is history… Sources. Krasnopolsky de Grinberg, Dora M. Los señores del metal. Minería y …

 — West Africa was one of the world's greatest producers of gold in the Middle Ages. Trade in the metal went back to antiquity but when the camel caravans of the Sahara linked North Africa to the savannah interior, the trade really took off. A succession of great African empires rose off the back of the gold trade as salt, ivory, and slaves were just …

Khoi-Khoi Guesthouse is situated on Farm Hester, which has been in the Smit family for 37 years. We opened on 01/06/2013 with 5 rooms, and has expanded to 16 rooms. The well-known mine, B2Gold, is situated across the road from Khoi-Khoi Guesthouse. Khoi-Khoi Guesthouse is a place to call home away from home.

 — Police Action Against Black South Africans . Police took direct action, including opening fire on demonstrators. In an ironic twist, Smuts had helped write the Charter of the United Nations, which asserted that the people of the world deserved equal rights, but he did not include non-White races in his definition of "people," and eventually …

In the early days of mining, the workforce came from the Mfengu, the Ngqika (ka Rharhabe) and the Khoi cluster; they tended to be migrants who worked for short periods. They were part of the input and yet were turned into passive participants! ... F.A. Johnstone characterises the social evils associated with the gold mining in South Africa:

Prospect Where Gold Has Been Found Before. The lack of outstanding success in spite of the great increase in prospecting during the depression in the 1930's confirms the opinion of those most familiar with the occurrence of gold and the development of gold mining districts is that the best chances of success lie in systematic studies of known productive areas …

 — This technique of heating rock made it possible for humanity to eventually discover, extract and manipulate metals such as iron, gold and copper. De Almedia could not have known that at the Cape where he died, the early techniques of human fire …

From the end of World War II through 1983, domestic mine production of gold did not exceed 2 million ounces annually. Since 1985, annual production has risen by 1 million to 1.5 million ounces every year. By the …

 — Evidence is mounting that the kingdom of Kush, in its ascendancy from 2000 B.C. to 1500 B.C., exerted control or at least influence over a 750-mile stretch of the Nile Valley.

 — An amalgamation of Khoi pastoralists and San hunter-gatherers, Khoisan people had a rich history of culture and structure before the arrival of Dutch and British settlers in the 17th century. The colonization of South Africa led to not only the mistreatment of Khoisan people which was justified by oppressive colonial laws and ethnocentric …

The Khoikhoi ("men of men") or Khoi, in standardised Khoekhoe/Nama orthography spelled Khoekhoe, are a historical division of the Khoisan ethnic group of southwestern Africa, closely related to the Bushmen (or …

 — Some 22,000 years ago, Khoisan were the largest group of humans on earth: the Khoisan, a tribe of hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. The Khoisan were the first people in Southern Africa, and their history is fascinating. Long before the first settlers arrived on South African shores, there were various groups of people who spread out …

South Africa's Ancient Annunaki Gold Mines. Michael Tellinger has become an international authority on the origins of humankind and the vanished civilizations of southern Africa. Scholars have told us that the first …

 — Modern gold usually comes in the form of bullion. But King Solomon used a portion of his gold to fashion items such as shields, cups, and plates. King Solomon's temple, built in the mid 10th century BCE, was bedecked in gold. At his palace, builders constructed his throne from a combination of gold and other precious material, ivory.

Black inhabitants of southern Africa had been mining and working gold for centuries before the arrival of European colonisers. They found gold in rivers and streams and British immigrant Edward Button discovered the first subterranean deposits in 1871 in the eastern Transvaal Drakensberg. Another Brit, George Harrison, found the richest deposit ...

 — The Khoi Khoi were skilled in the practice of nomadic pastoral agriculture. The maintained large herds of cattle throughout the country, and evidence suggests that they migrated to South Africa from …

 — A man walks with a horse close to the guardhouse of VCS Mining, which mines gold in Haiti and has raised controversy by naming Tony Rodham, brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton, to its board.

 — The Klondike Gold Rush was a mass influx of prospecting migrants to the Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered in those regions in 1896.

 — Abdel-Basir explained that Ancient Pharaohs did not worship gold but on the other hand sanctified the golden color that symbolized the color of sunlight, because its color does not change over time. The gold industry was one of the most important Egyptian crafts and gold was associated with funerary rites.

The requested slaves did not arrive immediately and the refreshment station's labour requirements resulted in Van Riebeeck's orders being disregarded. ... assaulted, burgled, murdered and looted Dutch and other Khoi groups on the southern coast of the Cape. This was the only form of objection to slaves and white farmers available and the ...

 — The Gold King Mine is one of 48 mining sites in the Bonita Peak Mining District, which the agency recently proposed to be added to the National Priorities List. The agency is accepting comments regarding this proposed listing through June 6.

 — The Silver Mines of Mexico. In Mesoamerica, silver was a valuable material, although not perhaps as much as gold, turquoise, and jade. The Maya, for example, had no source of the metal of their own in the lowlands.In 1547-8 the Zacatecas mines in Mexico began operation under Spanish control, the rich local vein of silver having already been …

 — The diamond came from India's alluvial mines thousands of years ago, sifted from the sand. According to Hindu belief, it was revered by gods like Krishna—even though it seemed to carry a curse ...

To provide fresh supplies to ships rounding the Cape, Europeans obtained stock through barter. Khoi were very careful of their breeding stock and did not ordinarily kill cattle for …

 — Gold mining; The road to war; The South African War (1899–1902) Reconstruction, union, and segregation (1902–29) ... in the 1780s the Dutch stepped up the enserfment of surviving Khoe (also spelled Khoi; ... alcohol, and firearms along the southeast coast in return for ivory, slaves, cattle, gold, wax, and skins. During the late …

 — Khoi Rebellion. In 1799, the Khoi on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony rebelled. During the ensuing war from 1799 to 1802, hundreds of Khoi left their employers' farms to rather live amongst the Xhosas. ... Prior to an era of DNA testing, metallurgical analysis and cell phone cameras, such inferences were the gold standard for ...