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Title:Role and Position of Elderly !Xu in the Schmidtsdrift Bushman Community
Author:Steyn, H.P.
Year:1994
Periodical:South African Journal of Ethnology
Volume:17
Issue:2
Period:June
Pages:31-37
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:elderly
San
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:During 1990, South Africa's dwindling indigenous Bushman population drastically increased when the South African Defence Force (SADF) moved some 4,000 military personnel and their dependents from Namibia to Schmidtsdrift, near Kimberley. Recruited by the SADF in the 1970s, these Bushmen had been involved in the bush war against SWAPO. Their settlement at Schmidtsdrift confronted them with considerable changes and challenges of adaptation. Elderly people in particular constituted a category which had been negatively affected by these changes, as many were unemployed, dependent, bored and marginalized, sharply contrasting with the role and position of the elderly in 'traditional' Bushman communities. The author did research in the !X~u community of Schmidtsdrift in October 1991 and during March/April 1993. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in Afrikaans and English.
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