One of the world's oldest cultures: bushmen | WIDE | FULL DOCUMENTARY
In the lands of Southern Africa reside one of the oldest peoples in humanity: the bushmen. Largely hunter-gatherers, bushmen’s territory extends over several nations in Southern Africa, which they have called home for tens of thousands of years.
This documentary follows the descendants of the bushmen in South Africa, many of whom have lost their connection to their ancestral roots. Their fight to preserve their tradition and to have their identity recognised continues.
Documentary: "Mythical Road - The Road of Bushmen"
Directed by: Anne Poiret
Production: 2F Productions
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I’m Maori from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Your people are admired where I’m from, by those that know🤙🏾✌🏾👌🏾💪🏾
I'm an American who is part Native American and I love these people I wish I were there
Thanks🤞🏿
We love and admire your people as well
The true native people of the land , not these "European/British" occupiers. Same in Australia.
@@judejaradat1446 in Africa the Holland Dutch don't want to identify as Europeans they want to be Afrikaans or just white 😁
What a shame those kids are confused.. it would be a honor to be a part of those bushman.
Tough to say that. Culture is amazing but to find a mate they may have to evolve. Inbreeding is best in Texas.
@@jamin4680 What? First off, that is not how evolution works. Secondly, who the heck said anything about inbreeding? Beyond that, inbreeding is never good.
i would be proud to identify as a bush man. Such beautiful people
I agree with you 100% PROUD, PROUD,PROUD!!
It's not a culture to be proud of - alcoholism, endless squabbles and fights over small things, selfishness, dishonest, deceptive and untrustworthy. Not to mention dropping out of school, laziness and a sense of entitlement, grabbing where they did not sow, and raiding farms.
@@Bourne-fu8bz I get you, but having a bushman ancestry doesn’t automatically mean I would live with this stereotypes
@@Bourne-fu8bz Are you proud that your forefathers committed genocide?
It’s a shame how these beautiful people have been destroyed and their culture wiped out. These were the first human beings and they helped people the great planet. 😕
Seeing natural tribal people always fills my heart with love.
This is not an atrocity of the past, it is an atrocity that still carries on today that began in the past.
It's very sad that our rich traditions are disappearing🤐
then put your efforts into saving these traditions
Bcuz we here in America are not doing anything for them. I want the Reyes African bushmen to comeback to their lands. And don’t make children with whites man that was a mistake.
How do you kno there not doing what they can? They are only human like you and me
It's infuriating for me
How very sad 😔. They should be celebrated for their culture and heritage ❤️
Colonizers will always be colonizers. They can't help it. Even when they try to do good, they do evil.
Good thing we have the remaining few who will eventually change the narrative. No human being can totally eliminate God's creation.
species go extinct all the time and so do cultures once they’re gone they don’t come back
Happens all the time, they ruined native Americans for just money. Something a native could care less about. Me either but we must have it or get locked up for some crime or another. I can Mt wait until it all crumbles and people get only what they work for or deserve not what daddy cheated someone out of.
I'm literally sick to my stomach when I see and hear how my ancestors where and still are treated today! And they manage to smile, smile to hide the pain. I'm so upset about the genocide, the slavery and the mocking we've experienced... This is so disturbing to see, I feel it in my spirit... Ai my mense my hart is seer vir ons leiding...Ons bloed is verspoel en diep in die rooi sand, veilig tussen die sandyne, heuwels, berge en see gebêre, totdat ons self dit oopgrawe. Ons alleen kan ons storie vertel,maar wanneer gaan ons dit doen?
This is exactly how I felt watching this documentary. When I was in University in the 80's one of my profs had lived among the San in the Kalahari for about a year or so. He spoke the language and everything, and he taught us a lot about their life. They lived on their land then, and now watching this film so many years later it is mentioned that all their land 'belongs to someone' and they cannot hunt on it. It is really sickening to witness the degradation of the modern way of life. all for what? profit? I dont know what to say, I do wish we see the light soon otherwise what is really human may simply be replaced by some sort of shallow pretense.
@@JJ66888 your comment is empty , meaningless ..... Sherrelle Swartbooi healing wont change or stop the explotation endured by people in their own land. land and resources must be returned to their rightful owners
@@shayivukile Do something about it. Write a letter to the President of the country.
As a black South African I feel your pain. It's really heart breaking how evil other humans can be.
I have so much respect for you. You are truly the real people of South Africa, a pity that your ancestors have gone so much trouble
Beautiful people
The dirty little secret about diamonds is that they're not so rare. DeBeers used savvy advertising to make people believe that diamonds are rare and therefore expensive. Btw before DeBeers got there what were the diamonds that lay about the land being used for?
Everybody knows they are not eare it was a secret 30 years ago not today People know lab diamonds sell for cheaper and still want to pay more for the "pure" diamond
Yes they short the market. Keep from too many diamonds from being released. I was reading Diamonds are ridiculously available in the Russia. Diamonds all in the land there
I never bought a diamond and do not plan to do so.
Wow! This guy traced back his heritage to 25.000 years! That's so cool! I traced back my family roots only to 1630.
6:14 - 6:40 that's really admirable that a French man has attempted to learn the Nama language. Nama language is so beautiful
I am humbled to know so much more about these people. So good natured and friendly despite the history they've endured. Strong in spirit.
That's very sad to know that the I share a DNA with have killed by the Europeans and even sidelined in everything recognition, development and the name they are being called with is not appropriate they are the San people not bushmen.
@bryaneddy5272 - Yet you are the same colonizers who wiped out Red Indians in America and Aborigines in Australia. Your ancestors would do the same if they were in Southern Africa
Sadder still is that when the black Bantu tribes arrived in the land of the Khoi and San , they overwhelmed them and robbed them of their land , stole their cattle and goats and rapped their women . This ugly part of early interactions with the foreign migrant settlers from central Africa is almost taboo to speak of today . The cruel injustices suffered at the hands of the black tribes continue today . The black Bantu Nguni govt sidelines and ignores the original inhabitants even today , they are not quite black enough to benefit from affirmative action , BEE or social development programs . None of their languages are officially recognised , while all the black Ngunis are . The struggle of the first nation continues .
Let these people be….they are happy with their way of living….PLEASE 🙏
Unfortunately the world stops for no one.
I take my hat off to David. He has done a lot of research on the Hottentot-San people. Well done, David. Best wishes from Aotearoa.
Kia Ora I Tautoko Your Korero. Aroha from the Waikato. 💯😎
Hottentot is a dirogetory disciption of them which was first used by the Dutch settlers. Literally means 'those that stutter'. Derived from the fact of clicks in their language. The oldest among all languages in the world.
@@playgirl7305 interesting research
@@playgirl7305 do u mind if I subscribe to your knowledge a bit
@Donnell Okafor I speak German and Dutch and know what it means.
Great insight of a very special group of people, the young descendants of these people need to be taught of their heritage and culture so it is not lost.
The heritage and culture had already been destroyed. That's the sad reality. We can try to cling to what's left but you can't bring it back from the void
@@SungazerDNB destroyed by colonialists
This is VERY beautiful Africa!!! .-)
Sad story indeed. Some of us just enjoy this flashy lifestyle and don't know that our ancestors were killed. Now they prisoners in their own land. Shame😭😭
So sad,beautiful people!
Once again Wide has done what you do so well, transported me to another world, illuminated a people and a place for us to see and understand. Lovely people. Lovely video.
These people are very very clever….love them
Great documentary. Also here in Botswana they are there, many of them in the Kalahari desert and up north of the country.
How are they treated in Botswana?
Are they infected with the same hatred of self like those in South Africa?
The Khoi and San are the original people of Southern Africa... Namibia has the Bushman
And they must be recognised as natives just as Batswana just as well
@@penechris2766 and will you call yourself a cavemen then, why must those poor souls be bushmen when son of men is from the bushes originally
Stop calling them "Bushman"! There is no group of Europeans referred to as "snowman" or "Iceman"
Ötzi the Iceman, who lived and died in the European Alps some 5,200 years ago. His naturally mummified remains were discovered by German hikers on September 19, 1991
@@jondoealoe Comparing 1 person who doesn't exist anymore to an entire nation that still exists is not apples to apples. There is no current nation of human souls today refered to as snowmen
@@Dr_Du-Little If you worded your original post with as much care as your second post, nobody would be talking about apples. Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
@@jondoealoe That verse is out of context. You are not pointing out which word /words I used "carelessly" It's a fact that Europeans are the people who coined the term "Bushman" to refer to the Basarwa people of the Kalahari. They even went on to add a more derogatory term "Hottentot". Those are facts no one can dispute.
@@Dr_Du-Little That verse was in context Dumi.
My favorite people i so wish to see them face to face one day and spend time with them ❤❤❤❤
Every Indigenous people of the world are proud of their tradition, culture way of life. But life changes according to times and the San people must change inorder for them to survive as a people in the modern era.
I am a SAN speaking young men From North East of Namibia, My community lives inside a National Park Called The Bwabwata National Park, we have been fighting marginalization and poverty through an NGO called San Youth Network (SYNet)
I live in Windhoek and in highschool i was part of a project that called on young people to bring up innovative ideas on how we can improve our communities and there were two San girls in our group,i think they were from your organization..if im not mistaken
@@JohnnyDLaw Yes Absolutely.
What a disgrace that so many San people were killed by the Germans. This is shameful! I feel so sad that the indigenous San people are treated worst than animals. May God provide for all their needs. Much love to you all from Aotearoa.
The Nama , another San tribe in Namibia did enslave the black tribe called the Herero. Unfortunately this report is very biased. Typical of foreign producers.
@@michaellawson6533, I went on a visit to Namibia in 2017. My cousin and her husband owns a factory in the city. I have never heard about the Nama tribe who enslaved the Herero tribe. But, I will most certainly do my research. What I do know and have seen are Nama women, who are married to rich Afrikaner farmers. Thank you for this information. Much appreciated
@@michaellawson6533 I suppose the biasness of this report exonerates the Germans from any disgrace.
@@michaellawson6533 lol but the San are also black what are you even talking about you talked as if the San aren’t black themselves
Kia Ora Whanau🤙🏾✌🏾
How can one ever understand such devilishly atrocious wickednesses exhibited by foreign invaders of Africa?
whites
these people are so beautiful
we don't call these people's bushmen or "h*ttent*t" anymore its actually San or Khoi and even those names are pretty broad with each group having its distinct niche but all still trading and cattle farming (as the Khoi) Like the Outeniqua, Hessaqua , gouriqua etc and the San being the hunter gatherers (the //Xnu like in the doc for example) with also very interesting religious practices and naming of certain spots around southern africa's more arid areas (these were nomadic peoples , never confining themselves to one particular area for long periods of time)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! At last: a quietly informed, literate commentary, delivered without a hint of the ghastly self-advertising mannerisms, quasi-theatrical quirks, and annoying lack of attention to proper punctuation that make so many would-be informative KZhead videos completely unwatchable. Yours is easy to listen to, and gets straight to the point, instead of wasting 20 minutes in pointless, wearying preamble designed to display the commentator's supposed background research, erudition, and grasp of his/her subject. A delightful exposition of a subject that clearly needs to attract far more attention.
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the title should have been, world's oldest people.
They are not
@@davidhenderson3284 there are consider one of the oldest people.
Correctly stated they are the World’s oldest ethnicity. Humans are all the same age as far as we know.
they look like South America Indigenous
The guy that spoke a bit of the Khoi & San lingo, from one can make out that he is from Germany, Germans that’s guilty of the genocide the Hereroes of Namibia
The Germans killed thousands of indigenous Hereroes of Namibia and stole a lot of their diamonds. Brutal, greedy murderers.
Europeans have a lot to distance themselves from. That’s how the guit is dealt with
Both comments ⬆️⬆️ are on point 💯
Thanks so much about african nomads
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The Apartheid in south Africa was the worst.We must remember our History.African history.
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Good work, these documentaries are much needed today and in future.
The kids are so cute
All beautiful people
Facinating documentary, I have driven a long some of these roads past Clan William. Wish I had seen this documentary before I had driven out that way. I am learning more about my country, South Africa and the boardering country of Namibia. I am South African of British/Dutch/French decent. This documentary states the 1st German concentration camp, but in Irene, Pretoria, South Africa we have an older British controlled concentration camp where the Boer women and children were kept captive by the British during the Boer war in the late 1800s. Germany wasnt the first people to use concentration camps. I had not known of the loses of the San people. This has not even been mentioned in our education system in our History classes, maybe because it is crossing a boarder it gets left out, but Namibia was part of South Africa until 1990. We teach about their medicine, society, nomadic life style, their fight for recognition, their culture being diluted into other tribes and groups but this masacar is new to me, There is so much to learn about the past.
It's Sooo SAD to learn about the history of the people, Human BEINGS of AFRICA, as well as ASIA, where EUROPEANS have ventured. IS THERE A GOD 🙏 who would FORGIVE SUCH CRIMES?????.
Beautiful thing to see them respecting and following their culture and tradition as well as Following Christianity ....
wow im so glad i got to learn about this
My people 🤞🏿
@@Flarb1117 🤣🤣🤣why you watching it or even commented you goofball
This is sad... Indigenous people are not treated good world over
Wild west destroyed the world and all in it.
Why? Is it only about greed or hatred or both?
Looks like wherever exploring Europeans went they brought devastation and decimation of many members of the human race.
Very true, all forgotten and stripped off their identity. Khoi San, Red Indians, aborigines, pygmies, masai the list goes on
Why are they trying to paint the indigenous south Africans as mulatto?? They are black it's clear as day towards then end of the documentary..
One of the best people on earth, we owe them a lot of our history...hero pioneers
Ice
We could have so many rich diverse cultures if colonialism had not all but wiped them out.
Agreed. The west African Bantu were savage in their oppression of the San and Khoikhoi as they carved their way to what is now South Africa. They still oppress them to this day
@@owenswabi You think Europeans are any better? The scale is immensely different.
@@owenswabi You don't see Europeans invading each other killing men women and children.... no wait that is wrong.
@@owenswabi liar
@@lindelwanothandongcobo8863 oh yeah, you’re right. It was a peaceful continental expansion, colonization, and replacement of native capoids
SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE SOUTH IN THE USA
Africa looks a lot like America in some parts. Very beautiful. A mix of our southwest, and plains area. Crazy and fascinating
@Donnell Okafor yes it does I’m assuming you either aren’t from the 🇺🇸 or haven’t been to the Midwest or both
Long term human habitation creates sparse grassland, and westernisation completely tramples what is left.
It's a great petty and shame that the commentator insists to refer to these people as bushman even though how many times he hears that we prefer the proper name, San or Sanqua.
San or Sanqua ok. Must admit the name Bushmen is one I know and respect. Salt of the eath people. So wise out of the soul of Africa. I love Bushmen (san) and they need to be protected. Bushmans are the rulers of SA lands. Missing their culture and life style in the bush. Bushmen afraid to be called primitive....one day when all is gone like we know it....the wiadoms of the buahmans will keep people alive. They are wisdom and that was life....now we rush for money only...it has brought allot of problems....
orang utan is a bushman in my language
The name San is a derogatory name given to them by the Bantu people. Those Bushmen each had their own languages far more different from each other than most languages are today. In the 1930s there were 61 different Bushman languages in Botswana and by 1992 there were 9 left . A white farm girl grew up with one of them and they ended up as the only 2 people who could speak that language. Due to such great language differences they NEVER referred to their fellow hunter gatherers under one race name like San or Bushmen. They were too widely scattered and as I mentioned before their languages werent even related in some cases. They have the greatest genetic gene pool of diversity on earth, namely 30 % more than any other race on earth. They are related to the Pygmies of the Congo jungles. And a small remnant in Southern Tanzania. They once occupied the whole of Southern Africa alone until the Bantu moved in and either killed them or used them as slaves on the copper pits in Zimbabwe where they died within 2 years due to copper poisoning and malnutrition. I could go on but wont wasteyour time.
@@michaellawson6533 Thank you for info. SA...so it was the Bushman who had (lived in) SA and the Bantu was the settlers/ colonizers over them.
Thank you Michael for your informative input. To add my 2cents we can go on to disclose that "San" is a derogatory term which means 'a naked thief'. The more appropriate term in Khoekhoegowab is "Saab" and literally translates to 'Bushmen' as in the 'professors of the field'.
The headline should be the indigenous peoples of southern africa, spreading up to Angola, Namibia Botswana...
What Year are we Living in…..This is ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL…..In My Family We have Both and have so much LOVE 💕 for each other And the Children give us so much JOY they have been Educated and are now in their early 30’s and I’m ready for more children but They are NOT in in a Hurry yet…. This is sad if this was Back again in my Country I wouldn’t have ALL the LOVE and Joy for Our BEAUTIFUL Children……
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@@mohdfahmi8841 What dose this mean…..Do not understand
I ran my DNA background test and I am related to the san tribe in South Africa these very people are my relatives when my ancestors were hunter gatherers.
@@Flarb1117 LOL
My tradition my pride
So sad 😢 they have to fight for their land and people. They can not give up.
Humanity have much to learn ❤️💛💚🙏🏼
I nearly bought a farm. That had nothing on it but a house and bushmen who. Moved freely on this farm
This was very informative
What beautiful ,trusting and loving people God will judge all wickedness in His time .
Dream on.
Heartbreaking
I was deeply saddened to see the last of the Bushmen unable hunt, gather and freely live on even a single acre of what is actually their own land. Could not even an ounce of respect be paid to indigenous people? They have suffered the same fate as in the US: colonization genocide alcoholism high unemployment and poor health as a result. Apartheid still existing in rural areas! And children being ashamed of their heritage means they (and adults around them) have internalize the racism of their colonizers..
Mandela looks exactly as koisan people I don't know if you notice that
Yes, but he's Xhosa, language has clicks also
@@jessicahijarunguru3907 yess Shona clicks also
Xhosa,San,Nama these people arent so different
I am a Khoisan bushman by origin and proud
This was Interesting First time I heard of these people Thank you for sharing this 🎉🎉
I love that lady in Lavender Hill......knows and loves her history, her country and herself !!
Notice the inimitable hair growth pattern of these wonderful people . Quite different from any other people found in Africa. 😊
Not no more now it's strait!
@@aulenebeckford6268: Obviously, the younger generation keep up with the latest trends, because they are living a modern life style in comparison to the lifestyle of the older generation who had no schooling.
I think these r kalate mixed race they have European surnnames
That's incorrect. They have the same kinky curly hair just like Bantu or other ethnic groups. The ones you are referring to have been treated with a hot comb or iron.
The iron their hair too?
👍 From Calgary
Awesome people! The music the boy was playing is soul-reaching.
We have a rich History of a good life disrupted by greedy outsiders and still today this happening (it is time we unit as Africans)
The Era of Africa is rising!!
Creator of HEAVEN and Earth where are You ? we need Your Divine Supernatural Intervention in our lives 😮
Very Beautiful Country is NAMIBIA
The sad part is leaving their traditional god who their ancestors served for 3,500 years
Isn’t that true of all modern cultures? Don’t forget Christianity is only 2000 yrs old
The word "Bushman" sound as an insult to us South Africans. For myself, it downgrades the quality of the Content. Respectfully, they should be referred as the San Nation.
Coloureds are the direct descendance of the Khoi and San people.
No they not, majority of them are of mix race,
So are tswanas and Xhosas. And tswanas are closely related to sothos and pedis, and Xhosas are closely related to zulus and other nguni speaking people. Coloreds are discriminating themselves.
Coloured people r mixed with black and white those with muzungu names r mixed race
THEY LOOK JUST LIKE THE LATE NELSON MAN DELLA!!
You mean the Khoi San? Not BUSHMEN
They have destroys everything they got their hands on who's really the ANIMALS?.
Pure evil
This is so sad. I don't believe we'll actually know how sad until we realize this is killing a part of ourselves
Really good culture of documentary. High style!
Watching this video makes one see the beauty of Africa. It reinforces the concept that everyone stems from African people. Genetically through the pheno-type you see the rudimentary bases for all of humankind. If Africa could strip itself of the boarders, allowing the people to marry, there is no telling what that continent and it's people will be able to accomplish.
This is so sad to me...
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An interresting perspective
My emotions are running high after watching this 😭
Great video! ☆ Jesimiel Millar
So sad for the indigenous people 😢😥
I like the music and dances
I love them yhoo❤❤
Long time ago a girl took her lion to the sea shore ,she had a bushman couple ,who guided her ,they had ostrich eggs and bush pumpkins in the way ,last i heard she went to study abroad ...
Baboon babies in diapers
Am from South Africa, limpopo province. This video is very sad, i feel like exploring and learning more about this people
The Univers belongs to Thee Almighty Creator. We all are visitors here one earth . You come with nothing you leave with nothing .The greedy leave nothing for the needy . The more one have the more cruelly they become. Supressing a fellow earthling is the lowest thing you can do . Thee Almighty is good .The Devil will pay all his employees ✌🏽
Call on our PRESENT GOVERNMENT TO DO SOMETHING FOR THESE PEOPLE. They are MOST UNWILLING TO ADMIT THAT THESE ARE THE TRUE FIRST PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Did he say a loaf of bread wow
breaks my heart that the shaman has no successor. all those ancient secrets will be lost forever.
Amazing documentary. This is the sad reality of colonialism by the Portugese, Dutch and the British. These people were living peacefully when the europeans came along and killed the people that were native to this beautiful country because of greed. It saddens me that nothing has changed and the legacy of apartheid will still be alive for many years to come.
This happens everywhere Take Taiwan, where the original Austronesian people now only make up 2.38% of the population of 24 million, having been replaced by the Han Chinese who only arrived in the late 1600's.
You know, times were different. Societies lived in an era where conquering other countries were the main goal. If you study history, of all countries, the super powers always supress the minorities. The Vikings did it, the Ancient Egyptians did the same, so did the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Gengis khan, etc. it was not only the Dutch, or the British, or the Portuguese or the French who suppressed Africa. What did the Spanish do in South America? They killed the Incas, the Aztecas, You know, we just have to go and understand that the past is the past, and we human beings are all evolving from our experiences. What those people did, was not right, but they did not know better. But they also did good things, so not everything was bad.
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The Germans , the Germans, the Germans. This is so sad!!!
Would be a shame if we lost all the knowledge the San people holds...They have beautiful eyes..
Great to hear them speak Afrikaans ❤️🕊❤️
jaa dat hebben wij nederlanders goed gefixt vroeger
that not great at all they should be speaking there own language if it was not for Afrikaanas
@@instagramnews8194 I agree…but Afrikaans was everybody’s 2nd language a very long time ago…people needed to communicate….
@@instagramnews8194 bruh white people were there before the blacks
@@instagramnews8194 the real natives , as in bushmen , they have their own language . stop cucking for the wrong people
I feel it's unforgivable to say "the guard" told us there are still diamonds when you could've substituted those two words with any other words. To put "the guard" out on front street like that means that if one of his peers see this, it's all bad for "the guard" and you probably won't ever hear a thing about it. Other than that it's a pretty decent documentary
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