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...
by Job Morris | Sep 3, 2018 | Dekar, People
Acknowledging that education is not a new concept for the San, San parents, who are hunter-gatherers, share that there has been deep rooted change in the development of San education. They conclude that education for the San was, in the past, a sophisticated system of...
by Job Morris | Aug 31, 2018 | Dekar, People
When you look back, the life of the San may seem hard because the environment they once lived in would seem to render their way of life impossible to have survived for centuries. But I argue that it was their lifestyle that called for innovative and creative ways to...
by Andre Vaalbooi | Aug 24, 2018 | Andriesvale, People, San Heritage
Food is something one can’t live without, especially when there is a family. It was hard to survive, but Bushmen have planned their life in nature: by following the tracks of the animals and the rain they could manage to make a living. Men and women were...
by Job Morris | Aug 22, 2018 | Culture, Dekar, People, San Heritage
The San have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy to this day, food that nature provides. Some foods are balanced, tasty and enjoyable. San have the knowledge to combine different foods in order to enhance the flavour and taste. Some foods are pounded and mixed with edible...
