Their groups were assembled larger that the San or the Khoikhoi. They also had a much more advanced culture with iron made weapons and tools and along with herd keeping and hunting the also had agricultural skills that were used to raise grain and other crops.(Pascoe 22) These were all the primary natives before the first whites arrived.
The earliest white settlers founded the area now known as Cape town in 1652. They never planned on taking over the land. Their initial orders were to simply establish a "fort and garden." So they did just that. They constructed a fort and marked out various fields and bartered with the Khoikhoi for cattle. They used the meat from the cattle to make rations for their ships and to breed to make their own herds. The natives welcomed the trade at first but as time pasted along they began to realize that the white men are here to stay. Soon after not willing to allow the Dutch to have the quality nor the number of cattle the wanted, the Khoikhoi became less involved and willing with their trading partners. Now the relations between the Natives and the settlers were falling apart. Each began accusing the other of .
stealing goods and cattle. (Pascoe 29)The accusation soon built up into isolated incidents of .
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violence. And in 1659 it began, the first Hottentot war. The natives to the worst blows and the settlement still expanded. This scenario occurred over and over again during the next years and these battles not only gave the Dutch more and more land but also thousands of cattle to supply themselves with. While the territory expanded the settlement itself was also undergoing changes. The first major change was the implementing of slavery. As the settlement expanded the Dutch became more and more needy of someone to run the household, raise the crops, and tend to the cattle. The second change was a surprising one when South Africa's later history is considered, racial blending or mixing.