The first modern humans in southern Africa were the San, who lived there for tens of thousands of years before the KhoiKhoi arrived. After the KhoiKhoi, tens of thousands of years more passed before the Dutch made an appearance. It took the Dutch less than a hundred years, however, to so devastate both the San and the KhoiKhoi populations that by 1750 there was little sign of either tribe within 250 miles of Table Bay.
