Our Medicine – Part 2

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...

Winter food

This is one of our ground tubers called //xukxam. You can only find it during winter. You can never find it in any other season. Most of the time you will locate the //xukxam tuber by the smell. When it is ready to be eaten it has got a very sweet and attracting smell...

Our medicine

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...

Food

These ground tubers are called #qo. You can only find them in some parts of Namibia and not all the San people know about them. Some see them but they do not eat them, for example people (!kung) from Tsumkwe West do not know anything about them and only people...