‡Khomani San - Hugh Brody
University of Cape Town
The ǂKhomani San are the first people of the southern Kalahari. They lived as hunters and gatherers in the immense desert in the northwest corner of South Africa. For them, it was a land rich in wildlife, plants, trees, great sand dunes and dry riverbeds. When the ǂKhomani San share their history, they tell a story of dispossession from their lands, erasure of their way of life, and disappearance of their language. To speak of their past is to search in memory for all that was taken from them in the colonial, apartheid and post-apartheid era. But they also tell a story of reclamation and recovery of lands, language and even of memory itself. They tell a story of struggle to emerge from the losses of the past, to put in place a new story.
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Members of the Malgas family pose for a family photograph. Those present include Jakob Malgas, Abraham Malgas and Andrew Kruiper.
This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the …
Dawid Kruiper and Jakob Malgas were important figures for the San community and critical to the success of the Land Claims research process.
A draft map of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park showing three of the San community's important hunting grounds and an important gathering ground. Additional information includes waterholes, rivers, travelling routes and …
Members of the |Khasi-Kassie Family reconnecting with the ancestral history at the location of Donald Bain's former living site. In 1935 Donald Bain attempted to secure live specimens for his …
The landscape surrounding the ǂKhomani San 's former living area. This site is currently being excavated as an archaeological site.Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi …
"Tentacamp", a campsite in Erin, Northern Cape. The concentric circle in the foreground is used for a dance ritual, the inner circle for a fire place and the outer ring, …
Pits were originally dug for water but when these dry up, they are left uncovered and open to the elements, leaving a hole with an opening wide enough for children …
Luis Kruiper, Oulet Kruiper, Rosie Meintjies and an unidentified member of the San community rest during a data collection trip into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.Images from this trip document the …
Springbok are plentiful in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and generally only hunted by the ǂKhomani San for their meat. This image was taken during one of the first data collection …