Pre-colonial Period

When the colonists arrived in South Africa they controlled the teaching of history. Part of the program to imprint their history was to eradicate indigenous history. There are some who wrote about that eradication so even though manuscripts may not have been published the remnants were passed down from generation to generation.
Archaeologists and anthropologist did discover artifacts that indicated a indigenous history and much of these discoveries were suppressed under colonial and apartheid rule.
Today it is recognized that there is a rich pre-colonial history as depicted in the bushman cave drawings. I was able to visit the caves at Kuruman and visited the museum that showed proof of the use of fire in the caves.