Cuisine of South Africa has had a vareity of sources and stages:Cookery practised by indigenous people of South Africa such as the Khoisan and Xhosa- and Sotho-speaking peopleSettler cookery introduced during the colonial period by people of Afrikaner and British descent and their slaves and servants - this includes the cuisine of the Cape Malay people, which has many characteristics of Malaysia and Java, and recipes from neighbouring colonial cultures such as Portuguese Mozambique.