Botswana: San culture under threat

With nimble fingers, Sobo Cgara digs around a plant and unearths a calabash-shaped root full of water. Cgara, 24, is a San guide who shows tourists his people's unique knowledge of the Kalahari at a community-owned game farm near D'kar in Ghanzi district, in central-west Botswana. He is one of the few San youth with education, a job and a future. For centuries and up to the present, the San have been the losers in the conflict between their need for land on which to forage and the demands of cattle ranching.