Editorial

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July Photographs: Children of Nyae Nyae

The most precious asset of any community … these are the children of Nyae Nyae at play. The photographs were taken during a long, languid Sunday afternoon while film-makers worked most respectfully with a group of women gathering. There was nothing else to do but be enfolded into village life. Shortly after this, the children set off to walk back to school where they will stay with local families during the week before coming back home for the precious weekend.

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News

Briefing on illegal grazing in Nyae Nyae

2009-07-03 08:52:14

Conflict has arisen in Nyae Nyae between cattle farmers wishing to use the conservancy land and the Ju/’hoansi who are preserving and conserving the area – and who depend on it for their survival. This press release on the situation is from WIMSA

Launch of exciting new website project

2009-07-01 08:28:26

Personal communications network for San communities and interested groups and individuals

Sites of conscience: The reports of Louis Anthing

2009-06-15 18:07:57

This month’s photographs represent part of a project to bring to the attention of researchers the letters and reports of Louis Anthing, Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate in the N Cape during the 1860s

Rock Art & Graffiti don't mix!

2009-06-12 09:01:59

Would you write your name on top of someone else’s painting in an art gallery? Would you scratch your name, or that of your girlfriend or boyfriend, on the wall of your church? Of course not! Yet more and more South Africans are damaging rock paintings at places that were sacred to San ancestors.

Excitement over new San theatre production

2009-06-11 13:06:00

Next week will see the gala opening of the multimedia production Son of the Wind, which has been in production for some months now under the auspices of SASI in Northern Cape.

Publication of Ju|'hoan folktales

2009-06-10 12:33:00

The Kalahari People's Fund is proud to announce the publication of Ju|'hoan folktales: Transcriptions and English translations. Ordering details below. http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/tsmoon/KPF/juhoan_primer.pdf

New Books for the JP Brand Library: Namibia

2009-06-08 15:24:00

The Topnaar Education Fund/The Gava Kids is a group of private donors committed to the education of the Topnaar children in Namibia. We currently work with over 25 students, maintaining an ongoing commitment to support them a far as they will go and completely covering the educational cost for The Gava Kids.

First first-people?

2009-05-25 14:01:38

A new genetic survey by Dr. Sarah A. Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania and her team has found that modern humans originated in an area between Namibia and Angola, on the coast of southwest Africa.

Baba Festus from !Khwa ttu at UN

2009-05-24 11:59:36

This introduction is from a paper prepared for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues New York, USA 18 -29 May 2009 on Indigenous Women and Economics

Thinking Threads – a new website

2009-05-07 16:42:00

The KhoeSan research of Dr Chris Hewson Low, currently a Wellcome Trust funded researcher at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford – my home for the last ten years. www.thinkingthreads.com

Food security, aids risk and MDR-TB prevalence in

2009-04-07 08:05:25

Statement of the problem by Dr. Richard B. Lee and an urgent appeal for funding for this research project by the Kalahari Peoples Fund

The first story from the digital story workshop

2009-04-01 14:05:07

As reflected in last week’s articles on the process, here is the digital version of our first story produced by this technique. Another eight stories were made and will be put up on this site (and on You-Tube) over the next few weeks.