Local Genocide

I stayed last night with a professional hunter. He hunts predators, mostly caracal and jackals. Since he has hunted on the Suurveld, I asked him if he knew the secret to the massive stone walls one finds there. He said you ain't seen nothin'. You should go further into the interior. He said the "Hottentots" (today called the Khokhoi) built the walls, on the orders of the Boers. The walls were massive kraals, he said, and inside these kraals were smaller stone divisions. He said the reason that the big walls are now incomplete is that they were dismantled in later generations. The Hottentots, he said, were the slaves of the Boers, and when the Boers had no more use for them, they massacred them: "uitgeroei, geskiet". NOTE: This is a local history, not a textbook history.