‡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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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 …
One of the many San community members identified as part of the Land Claims research.
A draft map showing the use of territory by the San community in the South African section of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park. The map shows the location of Bushmen …
East of Gemsbokplein in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is an important ostrich hunting ground for the ǂKhomani San. This location is passed on from generation to generation and Jakob Malgas …