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 ...

They roamed the savannahs and open plains for thousands of years, but the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of southern Africa's San tribes is slowly being squeezed towards extinction. After clashing at ...

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 lived in the region as hunter-gathers.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...