THE San community, also called the Tshwa in Tsholotsho Matabeleland North, will celebrate Culture Day on Friday as a way of preserving their traditions.
Tsoro-o-otso San Development Trust director, Davy Ndlovu, said the event will be held at Chief Goledema’s homestead.
“We have funding from the Culture Fund to rebirth the San language and traditios,” Ndlovu said.
Ndlovu said the San language faced extinction following the death of native speakers.
“We have engaged the other San communities from Botswana as those still have their culture and languages intact,” he said.
“We have also applied to the Parks and Wildlife Management Authority through our quarter system to be supplied with the animal meat that would be used during the celebrations.
“This includes elephant meat.”
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They were relocated from the Hwange National Park in the late 1920s where they used to survive on game meat.
Today, the vast majority of Tshwa people are subsistence farmers.
