New Xade
A Time of Stresses in the Kalahari
An increasing number of G/wi and G//ana residents of New Xade, a resettlement community in western Botswana, say they want to return to their former homes in the Kalahari Desert. Jumanda Gakelebone, a prominent advocate for the rights of the long-suffering San people and now the councilor for New Xade, which is in the Gantsi […]
San Glad to be Back in the Kalahari
Some of the G/wi and G//ana San people who were expelled from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana have since returned to their ancestral desert in order to be themselves. Hunting and gathering as they have always done defines who they are, they feel, so it is hard for them to stop, despite […]
Another Van Der Post Writes about the Bushmen
The Botswana High Court decision in favor of the G/wi last December 13 was announced on the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Laurens Van Der Post. The famed South African writer had described, and romanticized, the lives of the G/wi, and the other San peoples, nearly 50 years ago in one of his […]
