This section holds one page for each people or nation in the valley’s story. It takes its name from the Tribes form of the TIME model, in which people organise through kinship and belonging, so that what you give and get depends on your family and your people. The pages themselves call each group a people (“the Chainoqua, a Khoekhoe people”), because some readers hear “tribe” as a colonial word. Only the folder keeps the model’s name.
A living heritage
Descendants of the Khoekhoe and San live in the valley today, and many hold their own knowledge of this history. The pages in this section are written from outside sources, and they will be corrected and added to as descendants give their own accounts. See Have your say below.
The peoples
- San. The hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa.
- Soaqua. The San of the south-western Cape, and the valley’s first known people.
- Khoekhoe. The herding peoples of the Cape, who arrived about 2,000 years ago.
- Chainoqua. The Khoekhoe people whose land took in this valley.
- Hessequa. The Khoekhoe people east of the Breede River, linked by Greyton’s histories to the Gobos valley.
Each page gives the sources for its facts.
Tribes in the TIME model
TIME reads the valley’s history through four forms of organisation: Tribes, Institutions, Markets, and Emergent. Each new form is added to the ones before it, and none comes to a close. The general model has its home on the BioConomy wiki, at The TIME Framework.
In the Forum’s reading, Tribes was the most dominant form in the valley from the first people until about 1713. It is still at work today in families and neighbourhoods, and among Khoi and San descendants reclaiming their history and names. This reading carries no fact-status tag, and residents may read the history differently. The Valley Through TIME explains the dates.
How these pages are written
- Each page says plainly that its written sources were made by outsiders, such as company officials and missionaries.
- Where sources disagree, a page sets out each account without choosing between them.
- Names that many people find offensive appear only where a page explains them or quotes a source.
- No page gives the location of rock art or burial sites. If you know of such a site, share it with the moderators privately.
Have your say
If you are a descendant of the Khoekhoe or San, or hold family stories or documents that tell part of this history, contact the moderators via How to Submit. Your account can correct these pages or add to them.
Related
References
- BioConomy wiki. The TIME Framework. The general definition of the four forms.
- Ronfeldt, D. (1996). Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks: A Framework About Societal Evolution. RAND. The TIMN framework on which the TIME model builds.