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From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit)
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Subject: Re: Two films on the !Kung
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 10:06:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 10:06:46 1985
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In article <539@im4u.UUCP> riddle@im4u.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
>      ...     the !Kung, whose territory in Namibia is under illegal
>occupation and control by South Africa.
> ...
>the modern-day !Kung live under apartheid, forced into a small area the
>South African administration of Namibia has set up as "Bushmanland."  Since
>Bushmanland contains far too few resources for them to continue their old
>ways of life, they are forced to adapt as best they can to modern ways:
>almost 40% of the !Kung in Bushmanland work for the South African army in

Bushmanland was Bushmanland long before apartheid existed.  Bushmanland is
not part of Namibia and never was.  It lies south of the Orange River and
east of Namakwaland.  There are no Bushmen there any more and have not 
been for a long time -- they were killed/chased away in the previous
century by white and black alike.
   The !Kung do live in Namibia, and some in Botswana.  Their culture
is fast becoming extinct, but that has more to do with a bronze-age
culture trying to survive in the 20th century than with apartheid.  
In fact, for at least the last 5 years there have been no official
apartheid in Namibia.  The internal "government" of Namibia is "mixed", 
And so is the rest of Namibia. 


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