Movie fans know the Ju’/Hoansi, formerly known as Bushmen, from the South African international hit “The Gods Must Be Crazy.” The 1980 comedy, hugely popular yet controversial, makes no claim to ...
Over the past hundred years, around 20 million people have been ushered from their homelands due to conservation alone. Those displaced people are kicked off their ancestral lands, witness their homes ...
Within weeks of the court ruling, forty evicted Bushmen sneaked back into the Kalahari, ignoring President Mogae’s attempts to make them stay out. By April 2006, two hundred had returned. Despite dual ...
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — Late at night in the Kalahari Desert, a little more than a decade ago, the clouds drew together like rippled crocodile skin, and the Bushmen, led by an old ...
The government of Botswana is relocating the last few dozen San Bushmen out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. For more than 20,000 years, the San have lived in the region as hunter-gathers. The ...
The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert are being relocated by the government of Botswana from their ancestral lands in southern Africa to "resettlement" camps. The relocation coincides with the discovery ...
ACCRA, GHANA — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the nation’s government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen from the Central ...
It is rare that a book blasts me with wisdom as forcefully as the one I read last week: Way of the Bushman as Told by the Tribal Elders: Spiritual Teachings and Practices of the Kalahari Ju|hoansi. I ...