Nommoa, commonly known as Doman, established himself as a resistance leader.

Sketch of the statue at the Castle of Good Hope
The first European settlement in South Africa arrived 1652 to set up a refreshment station for ships rounding the Cape, with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) needing the Khoi’s cattle to supply these ships to and from the East.
Doman was identified as an ally and a ‘middleman’ between the Dutch and the Khoi. To teach him Dutch so he could serve as an interpreter, in 1657 he was sent Batavia.
Doman returned to the Cape in 1658. However, he did not come back as “one of them” having experienced Dutch way of life as the VOC thought he would. Instead, he started plotting against the VOC, urging other Khoekhoen to take up resistance for the sake of protecting their culture, cattle and way of life.
In 1659 Doman formed a fighting force from different clans, and launched guerrilla attacks on the VOC. This sparked the First Khoekhoen-Dutch War, fought from May 1659 to April 1660.
The Nomadic existence of the Khoi is understood to have been disrupted by Dutch settling along the Liesbeeck river as they had traditionally used this territory for seasonal grazing for their herds.
Credit: Samuel Daniell (1805)