Caught between modernity and 20,000 years as hunter-gatherers, the San people sit at a crossroads. An indigenous people in southern Africa, they are our oldest human ancestors, DNA testing proving the ...

Today many Basarwa can be found in resettlement villages, where some struggle to pass on their traditions to the following generation. Sekele says that as children sent to school learn other languages ...

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New Xade — An anthropologist and former Gantsi District Commissioner Dr George Silberbauer has said the Basarwa are the indigenous inhabitants of the expansive Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).

Members of the Basarwa, an ancient tribe of hunter-gatherers, submitted an urgent application in court on Wednesday to bar the Botswana government from seizing their livestock and preventing their ...

A lot of people have asked what Basarwa "really want". Some have even gone to the extent of asking why Basarwa are always "crying even though the government takes care of them through the Remote Area ...

Gaborone - Human rights activists appealed to the Botswana government to retract a decision to terminate supplies of water and other basic social services to the approximately 435 Basarwa (bushmen) ...

Sotho opposes the removal of the Basarwa from their ancestral land in Botswana: “The Basarwa (Baroa in Sesotho) deserve to live on their land, as did the native American, in the same way they have ...

Their plight captured the world's imagination as they fought for their natural homeland. The Kalahari Bushmen's battle to retain the nomadic lifestyle they have enjoyed for thousands of years amid the ...

When the Bushmen were relocated they were given cattle or goats to encourage them to become herders The Kalahari sun is merciless: Two young women and two children little more than a year old are ...