KHOI AND SAN RELIGION. The Khoi and San are the aboriginal peoples of southern Africa. The appellations formerly applied to them (Hottentot and Bushmen, respectively) have gone out of use because of their derogatory connotations. Properly, the terms...

The Bushmen, San, Basarwa, ǃKung or Khwe are indigenous people of the Kalahari Desert, which spans areas of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. They were traditionally hunter-gatherers, part of the Khoisan group, and are related to the...

FOR 12 YEARS this column has been reporting on the tragedy unfolding in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the last ancestral homeland of southern Africa's bushmen. When the country gained its independence in 1966, the bushmen's right to remain indefinitely was guaranteed by the...

THE BUSHMEN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA: Slaughter of the Innocent by Sandy Gall, with a foreword by The Prince of Wales ONCE upon a time, Sandy Gall, that veteran and urbane TV newscaster, used to be what journalists call an "old Africa hand", which...

Botswana's government Thursday accepted a court order to allow the Bushmen, the nation's last hunter-gatherers, to live on their ancestral lands. But at the same time, officials imposed tough conditions likely to prevent most or all from returning.The High Court ruled Wednesday that the Bushmen...

Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that the country's Bushmen are entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a decision hailed as a victory for indigenous peoples.The Basarwa tribesmen had accused the government of evicting them _ in...