Their marginalised place in modern Namibia is the result of a series of events stemming from the impact of migration and colonisation on Southern Africa. While the San are among the original inhabitants of Namibia, they were pushed to the margins of their own lands by the southward migration of Bantu cattle herders, beginning around the sixteenth century. Ovambo, Kavango, Damara and Herero peoples spread out over the northern half of Namibia with vast herds of cattle. Not only did the cattle eat the grasses and destroy the waterholes, driving away the game that the San depended on, but the physically larger and more powerful Bantu peoples drove the San away from their herds, forcing them ever further to increasingly marginal land, unsuited for cattle.