ǁKhauxaǃnas (Khoekhoegowab: passively defend people from an enemy, Afrikaans / Dutch name Schans Vlakte: fortified valley) is an uninhabited village with a ruined fortress in south-eastern Namibia, east of the Great Karas Mountains.

Built at the end of the 18th century, most likely between 1796 and 1798 by Klaas Afrikaner and his two sons Jager and Titus, ǁKhauxaǃnas served as a hidden retreat and a fortress to fend off possible pursuits by Cape authorities.

ǁKhauxaǃnas is situated in the eastern part of the ǁKaras Region in southern Namibia, 173 km (107 mi) south-east of Keetmanshoop.

[1] The site named ǁKhauxaǃnas refers to the fortified settlement atop the hill overlooking the Bak River.

The length of the perimeter wall and the amount of doorways in it would have made the site difficult to defend against a sizable number of attackers.

Ridsdale reports that "[t]he opportunity of defending themselves in their impregnable fortification[...] never occurred, as the commandoes of Boers from the Colony pursued them no farther than Nisbett Bath",[4] where "Nisbett Bath" is a reference to Warmbad, and Boers are the white South African descendants of largely Dutch, French, German and Prussian immigrants whose transit was via the Dutch ports to the Cape.

The clan subsequently got into conflict with the authorities which openly broke out in March 1796 when the Afrikaners shot a farmer, Pieter Pienaar.

From there they launched a series of attacks against German Schutztruppe which culminated in the killing of Lieutenant Baron Nikolai von Stempel on 30 August 1904.

He points out that [m]ost of the written records [on the history of Namibia] were compiled by European adventurers, travellers, missionaries and colonial administrators; inevitably the Namibian people are described primarily from an alien perspective [...].