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Who were the first native people to come into contact with the Dutch settlers in the mid-17th century?

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Historically a pastoral people, inhabiting the coast of the Cape of Good Hope in historic times, the Khoikhoi were the first native people to come into contact (mid-17th cent.) with the Dutch settlers.

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