For a people who have spent most of their lives roaming the land freely, hunting wild animals and gathering berries and nuts for food, this place offers them no chance to live off the land. The dog is the only thing that can't bring its own food home.
It has to wait for its owner to give it some food. International human rights groups are calling for a boycott of Botswana's tourism industry, its second largest revenue generator until the government "stops persecuting the country's first inhabitants". President Ian Khama, who is seen as more subtle when it comes to managing the Bushmen situation, has announced that hunting in controlled areas would be outlawed by January He said the Bushmen would be taught "non-consumptive" ways of using their resources.
But the Bushmen argue that their years of living in harmony with the environment prove that their ways are ecologically sustainable. They say instead that this move is an attempt to do away with their culture. Botswana Bushmen win court battle. Botswana anger at diamond boycott. Can Botswana cash in on diamonds? Botswana Government. When the Bushmen were relocated they were given cattle or goats to encourage them to become herders.
Boitumelo L and Goiotseone Lobelo R do not enjoy their new lives. Battle lines. But why were they relocated? Changing lifestyles. The Bushmen have always been hunters and say they have never learned the skills needed to breed cattle. But being pastoralists has had its challenges.
They say modern life has not worked for them. White colonists found this very confusing when they tried to establish treaties with the San.
Leadership among the San is kept for those who have lived within that group for a long time, who have achieved a respectable age, and good character. San are largely egalitarian, sharing such things as meat and tobacco. Land is usually owned by a group, and rights to land are usually inherited bilaterally. Kinship bonds provide the basic framework for political models. Membership in a group is determined by residency.
As long as a person lives on the land of his group he maintains his membership. It is possible to hunt on land not owned by the group, but permission must be obtained from the owners. The San are excellent hunters.
Although they do a fair amount of trapping, the best method of hunting is with bow and arrow. The San arrow does not kill the animal straight away. It is the deadly poison, which eventually causes the death.
In the case of small antelope such as Duiker or Steenbok, a couple of hours may elapse before death. For larger antelope, this could be 7 to 12 hours. For large game, such as Giraffe it could take as long as 3 days. Today the San make the poison from the larvae of a small beetle but will also use poison from plants, such as the euphorbia, and snake venom.
What did the San eat? The San eat anything available, both animal and vegetable. Their selection of food ranges from antelope, Zebra, porcupine, wild hare, Lion, Giraffe, fish, insects, tortoise, flying ants, snakes venomous and non-venomous , Hyena, eggs and wild honey. The meat is boiled or roasted on a fire. The San are not wasteful and every part of the animal is used.
The hides are tanned for blankets and the bones are cracked for the marrow. Water is hard to come by, as the San are constantly on the move. Usually during the dry season, these migrants collect their moisture by scraping and squeezing roots. If they are out hunting or travelling, they would dig holes in the sand to find water. They also carry water in an ostrich eggshell. A caterpillar, reddish yellow in colour and about three-quarters of an inch long, called ka or ngwa is also used.
The poison is boiled repeatedly until it looks like red currant jelly. It is then allowed to cool and ready to be smeared on the arrows. The poison is highly toxic and is greatly feared by the San themselves; the arrow points are therefore reversed so that the poison is safely contained within the reed collar. It is also never smeared on the point but just below it - thus preventing fatal accidents.
The poison is neuro toxic and does not contaminate the whole animal. The spot where the arrow strikes is cut out and thrown away, but the rest of the meat is fit to eat. The effect of the poison is not instantaneous, and the hunters frequently have to track the animal for a few days.
The San also dug pitfalls near the larger rivers where the game came to drink. The pitfalls were large and deep, narrowing like a funnel towards the bottom, in the centre of which was planted a sharp stake.
These pitfalls were cleverly covered with branches, which resulted in the animals walking over the pit and falling onto the stake. When catching small animals such as hares, guinea fowls, Steenbok or Duiker, traps made of twisted gut or fibre from plants were used. These had a running noose that strangled the animal when it stepped into the snare to collect the food that had been placed inside it. Another way of capturing animals was to wait at Aardvark holes.
Aardvark holes are used by small buck as a resting place to escape the midday sun. Kung Peoples and Languages. Strategy Leader Resource Kit Home.
People Profile The! Kung Bushmen. Registry of Peoples codes Aukwe West! Kung : Kung-Ekoka East! Kung, Xu : Kung Gobabis East! Kung, Xu : Kung-Tsumkwe: ! Kung Okung : The Angola! Kung live in the more tropical open woodlands. They came under pressure from Cushites, then Nilotes, then Bantu peoples. The non-aggressive hunter-gatherers often moved away or were absorbed by intermarriage, or more often were killed off.
Some San peoples seem to be in existence now speaking the Bantu language of their dominant neighbors. Almost all remaining San peoples now live in the desert areas of southern Africa. The differences between the languages of the! Kung and other San indicate they have lived in their current areas for thousands of years.
Bantu immigrants began coming into southwest Africa around AD. Europeans made contact with "Bushmen" peoples around AD As Bantu and European people moved in, the!
Kung and other San retreated further into the marginal areas. Identity : Even though there are about 50,! Kung in southern Africa, by some reports only about one third of them continue their traditional nomadic lifestyles. Many of them were kidnapped and made to work in people's homes and on farms. Kung work on black-owned farms in Botswana. Because they are paid no wages, only food, they are very poor.
These few people are divided into scattered groups of a few hundred to a few thousand, who cannot understand each other's language. The San people are short and slim, with reddish-yellow skin and kinky hair described as "peppercorn. Kung call themselves zhu twa si, "the harmless people," in contrast to non-San, whom they call zosi, "animals without hooves," meaning they are as dangerous as predator animals. Kung are descendants of the original inhabitants of Angola.
Bantu groups began to expand into their area by AD. There are three ethno-linguistic groups called! Kung: Central! Kung of Botswana and Namibia, the Northern!
Most references refer to the Central! The Botswana government approved the mine, and previously stated that Gem would not be allowed to provide the Bushmen with water.
The government has, however, reserved the right to use water boreholes drilled by Gem for wildlife. Gem Diamonds claims that the Bushmen are in favour of the mine, but the Bushmen have had no independent advice on its probable impact. Other companies are also involved. Petra Diamonds is exploring throughout the reserve and has identified the Gope and Kukama areas as priorities.
At the same time, the Bushmen are prevented from hunting and the majority are forced to live outside their ancestral land. Survival is calling on tour operators and tourists across the globe to show their support for the Bushmen by boycotting tourism to Botswana. Mmegi, 12 November Richard Madden, sponsored by Wilderness Safaris, comes out against the boycott.
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