by Tebsanton TA | Dec 19, 2018 | !Khwa ttu, Culture, Gobabis, People
https://khwattuarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/VID_20180811_150710_s01.mp4 I took this video after getting permission from my interviewee. “I am /khase and my other name is Frans. Currently I am staying at the farm. Farm life is good for me because...
by Naisa Ghauz | Dec 12, 2018 | Culture, Other, People, Tsumkwe
This ground tuber works for almost every sickness. Let me say it works like an antibiotic, but let me just mention a few things it is used for: Some women use it to terminate their pregnancies Some people use it for flu, Some women use it to ease menstrual pains or...
by Tekla K | Nov 28, 2018 | Culture, People, Platfontein
The !Xun and Khwe San people are known for their wide range of plant food knowledge. In the olden days they used to gather edible plants for food in the veld. The katolo is a domesticated plant used by the !Xun and Khwe Community of Platfontein near Kimberley in the...
by Khwa ttu Digital Archive | Nov 21, 2018 | !Khwa ttu, Culture
The San used various water sources and even invented a technology to pump water out of the ground. Sip-wells were places where San sucked water through the sand using straws. These places were often situated north of salt pans, with a sand dune at their southern end....
by Job Morris | Sep 7, 2018 | Culture, Dekar, People
It is seldom in Botswana that voices from traditional San communities speak out about the education of their children. Mostly, formal schools are revered by the poor and illiterate as the place where their children will learn the skills they as parents feel they lack:...
by Naisa Ghauz | Sep 5, 2018 | Culture, Other, People, Tsumkwe
Traditionally the //ohru Plant, also known as Aloe Vera, is a very useful and important plant, and regarded as medicine world-wide. As for the San Community in Namibia in the Tsumkwe Constituency (Tsumkwe East), we use it as medicine for certain illnesses. For...
