A team of Stanford University scientists, using the largest-ever genetic analysis of remote tribal people, has determined that the human family tree is rooted in one of the world’s most marginal ...

Africa's San Bushmen Decry Relocation The government of Botswana is relocating the last few dozen San Bushmen out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. For more than 20,000 years, the San have ...

Leaders of three San groups, who represent about 8,000 people in South Africa, assembled the code: the !Xun, Khwe and !Khomani. But the majority of San live in Namibia and Botswana with smaller ...

Rival tribes plundered the Bushmen’s lands; other Bushmen were forced into slavery by farmers. By the 1960s, South African industry had begun exploiting the mineral wealth of the region.

WE have long needed an authoritative work on the Bushmen and Hottentots of South Africa. The former are an extremely important people for the ethnologist, and from them the Hottentots cannot be ...

Large-scale relocations of the Bushmen took place in 1997, 2002 and 2005 according to Survival International, a London-based organisation fighting for the rights of indigenous people.

The first Khoisan people's consultative meeting of post independent South Africa opens Friday in Oudsthoorn, a small town in the Western Cape province. South African Bushmen Discuss Welfare ...

The San Tribe, or Bushmen as they are commonly called, were the first indigenous residents of South Africa over 30,000 years ago. They are believed to be the world's most ancient race; ...

South Africa's indigenous San peoples have signed a deal ensuring they will profit from a diet drug being developed from a plant they have used for generations. Under the terms of the agreement, the ...