Southern Africa BC
| BCE in South Africa | ||
| BCE ยป Early CE 13th century | ||
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Events
- 186,000 BC - Earliest footprints of humans found in South Africa
- 100,000 BC - San or Bushmen (hunter-gatherers) are gradually displaced by the Khoikhoi (agri-pastoralists)
- 20,000 BC - The Khoikhoi migrate down the west coast
- 8000 BC - Date of man-made shelters discovered north of current day Johannesburg