Sophora tetraptera, the small-bodied Stone-age Bushmen hunter-gatherers inhabited the region along side Khoi-Khoi, Hottentot negros, at some period before 300 AD, communities of Bantu groups were living in the interior, what happened next was paralled all over the world, the Bantus discovered or were shown iron tools and began to farm, the larger Hottentots took up iron knives and the farming too and the Bushmen were pushed towards the hostile desert areas, mai conosciuta,