@thementalistscandidate So since this is a topic not a lot of people are aware of, I'll do an informal, sourceless rundown about the history here.
The term "Khoisan" in South Africa is a term referring to two indigenous groups of people the hunter-pastoralist "Khoikhoi" and the forager "San". According to popular history these groups were in South Africa prior to the agro-pastoralist "Bantu" - in SA this term is kind of outdated like Negro or Colored in the USA, which is why I use Ntu-speaker instead.
In actuality there is no such thing as "Khoisan", or at least there wasn't up until a century ago when a German zoologist and race scientist named Leonhardt Schultze-Jena used victims of the Herero and Nama genocide as research subjects to figure out whether there was a difference between the "Bushman" (San) and the "Hottentot" ("Khoikhoi"). When he found that there wasn't much physiological difference between them, he declared them one people - "Khoisan".
This term then permeated throughout academia via linguistics who coined the term "Khoisan" languages to refer to those click languages which did not belong to the proposed "Niger-Congo" languages that other black South Africans spoke. The "Khoisan" language family has been split into a minimum of 5 different families at this point.
So, the term is one that was invented by an active participant in a genocide and homogenises at least two different groups of people into a generic term. So "Khoisan" is definitely a troublesome term meaning we should use "Khoikhoi" and "San" right?
Well, "Khoikhoi" actually should be spelt "Khoekhoe" and pronounced something like "Kwe-kwe" if trying to use the indigenous name. The term "Khoena" is becoming more in use these days. Both of these terms really just mean "the people" and there's a lot of debate around them but for now, either is fine.
The term "San" comes from Khoemana, the standardised version of Southern Khoe language. It just means "forager" and could really apply to any group of foragers no matter their ethnicity or "race". So there were "San" who today would be considered "Khoekhoe" or Ntu-speaking". The various San groups don't really have a indigenous term that encompasses all of them, hell many in Botswana and Namibia dislike San and prefer Bushman or Basarwa respectively (which have similar meanings). If you want to talk about South African foraging groups San works but you gotta be aware that it's not exactly accurate.
Really there isn't an umbrella term to refer to both while excluding the indigenous farmers who have also lived here for millennia. The idea that you can really do that in any meaningful way is actually another scientific racist theory which was used to excuse colonialism. I'll post about that (Stow-Theal) another time.
TL;DR use Khoena/Khoekhoe, San and Ntu-speakers if you want generalised distinct group terms but know the actual history is a lot messier and these groups weren't like neatly separated as it's made out to be.
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