The history of South Africa is mostly a story of migration. This does not mean South Africa should continue embracing migration, however, because of the modern-day problem of overpopulation. A lot of diverse people's around the world have sought to make South Africa their home. The first human inhabitants of South Africa were likely to not even have been the KhoiSan. The first hominid inhabitants of South Africa were here 5 million years before present day, followed by stone tool users 1,8 million years ago. It is only after that that hunter-gatherer tribes like the San came 25000 to 8000 years ago followed by the Khoi/Khoi Khoi. Nguni tribes were first so-called Bantu language speakers to arrive in present day South Africa in what is said to be 200 AD by either archaeologists or carbon dating technology. Nguni tribes integrated with the San & intermarried. Sotho & Tswana speaking groups are estimated to have arrived around 800 AD & settled mostly...
Some of us may have seen some strange & laughable attempts at Africans trying to create spacecraft to go to space but let us not kid ourselves, extraterrestial activities cost a lot of money. Money many African countries simply do not have. So since Africans will, eventually, see need for us to explore outside the planet Earth, how can we do so so that it makes economic sense? We can look at South African-born American/Canadian entrepreneur Elon Musk who is planning to make an extraterrestial cruise ship-like business for wealthy people to get an experience of space travel. My belief is that Africa needs to be united in it's extraterrestial ambitions & activities e.g. Namibia cannot send a satellite or spacecraft on it's own without approval of a united African astronomical sciences & exploration body. This will prevent us cluttering the already cluttered external stratosphere orbit & gather us more funds & scientific brains for any space missions whethe...
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