GONAGUAS (" borderers ")  , descendants of a very old cross between the Hottentots and the Kaffirs, on the " ethnical divide " between the two races, apparently before the arrival of t11e whites in South Africa . They have been always a despised race and regarded as outcasts by the Bantu peoples . They were threatened with extermination during the Kaffir wars, but were protected by the British . At present they live in settled communities under civil magistrates without any tribal organization, and in some districts could be scarcely distinguished from the other natives but for their broken Hottentot-Dutch-English speech .