Events

• 186,000 BC - Earliest footprints of humans found in South Africa
• 100,000 BC - San
  Bushmen
  The indigenous people of Southern Africa, whose territory spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, are variously referred to as Bushmen, San, Sho, Barwa, Kung, or Khwe...
  
   or Bushmen (hunter-gatherers) are gradually displaced by the Khoikhoi
  Khoikhoi
  The Khoikhoi or Khoi, in standardised Khoekhoe/Nama orthography spelled Khoekhoe, are a historical division of the Khoisan ethnic group, the native people of southwestern Africa, closely related to the Bushmen . They had lived in southern Africa since the 5th century AD...
  
   (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
  Johannesburg
  Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...