Some 22,000 years ago, they were the largest group of humans on earth: the Khoisan, a tribe of hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. Today, only about 100,000 Khoisan, who are also known as Bushmen, ...

The Khoisan people from Southern Africa maintained ancient lifestyles as hunter-gatherers or pastoralists up to modern times, though little else is known about their early history. Here we infer early ...

An international team of researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the CNRS in Lyon have investigated the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of 500 individuals from ...

This last in a three-part series takes a look at efforts to produce more dictionaries and other materials in Khoisan languages and provides a glimpse of San life in a small village. An hour along the ...

This first of a three-part series is a discovery of small communities in Botswana who still use a diverse range of click languages that have survived across vast time - and landscapes. Two thousand ...

The struggle for the ancestral land of the Basarwa Khoisan in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana has resurfaced with a desperate cry for help from a resident. The unnamed woman gave a ...

Using the Nelson Mandela statue at the Union Buildings in Pretoria for shade, six Khoisan, led by Chief Khoisan SA, said the time for talking about their demands was over. The group made the arduous 1 ...

Having camped outside the Union Buildings for nearly seven years to protest for the recognition of the Khoisan people and their language, King Khoisan SA says the topic of heritage is a sad one as ...

Government has encouraged the Khoisan community to participate in shaping legislation as Parliament considers the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Bill. Image: SANews on Facebook The Presidency ...

The Bushmen know which plants and herbs are good to eat — and which will heal their ailments. Some 22,000 years ago, they were the largest group of humans on earth: the Khoisan, a tribe of ...