>When the native africans took over S.A. Wrong. The Bantu (the group we usually call black people) are not the indigenous people of SA. They only started arriving there in the last 1000 years. Up until around 3000 years ago, the two genetic populations that dominated basically all of sub saharan africa were 1. Khoisan/sandawe/hadza aka bushmen, clicky language people (Y-chromosome A, mtDNA group L0) 2. Pygmies/Central African foragers. (Y-chromosome B, mtDNA group L1, L5 The other two groups of blacks in sub-saharan africa, the most populous ones are 1. West African/Bantu (Y-chromosome E, mtDNA group L2,L3) 2. East Africans (Y-chromosome E , mtDNA group L2, L3, and a few other groups, some of which are clearly late arrivals from Asia) The first two groups are hunter gatherers which split of from other humans genetically around 150,000 years ago. The other much more populous groups only split off from non-africans around 70,000 years ago. It is not at all clear whether L3 and Y-chromosome E originated in Africa. Y-chromosome E is more closely related to D, which is seen in some East Asians. Its been shown recently that the dominant population in Cameroon was Pygmy 3000 years ago, by fossils. The Bantu expansion theory which states that Bantus expanded out of a West Afrian homeland to take over Pygmy and Khoisan territory is only partially correct— West African/Bantu group was not native to West Africa either ! They may have begun invading Khoisan and Pygmy territories from Sahara or Arabia homelands because of increasing aridification of those areas, or because of a technological development like metallurgy or agriculture, or perhaps pressure from Eurasians. Blacks are not the indigenous people of subsaharan africa. They genocided Khoisan and Pygmies slowly over the last 3000 years. They only recently arrived in SA, about the same time as the Dutch and Portuguese. Only the Khoisan, and to some extent the mixed Cape Coloureds can really claim to be native.