The UNESCO Chair in Digital Technology Design with Indigenous People, together with international partners, is exploring ways to use digital technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR) and interactive games, to preserve Ju/'hoansi culture and language.
Residents of Otjipaheua in the Otjozondjupa Region of Tsumkwe have called for a mobile police station to be brought to Otjipaheua.
Speaking to NBC News, Kaatapo Njavera said the community needs police presence at Otjipaheua for their safety.
The Ju/'hoansi community hosted a three-day cultural festival at Witbos Village, outside Tsumkwe.
The community has been organising the festival since 2024 as part of efforts to preserve its cultural heritage and pass traditional knowledge and skills on to younger generations.
Two hippos that reportedly migrated from Botswana's Okavango Delta to the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Tsumkwe in 2017 have made a natural pond their home.
A primary school in the Nyae Nyae area in Tsumkwe has recorded notable progress less than a year after it was relocated from ||Aru to ǂAma and upgraded from a village school to a fully fledged primary school.
The San Cultural Festival has concluded in Tsumkwe after three days of celebrations.
The festival brought together San communities, traditional leaders, government representatives and visitors to celebrate and promote San cultural heritage, languages, indigenous knowledge systems and identity.
Parents and church leaders in Tsumkwe are concerned at the lack of discipline at the local Senior Secondary School hostel.
The community shared their growing frustrations during a targeted dialogue hosted in the area by the Forum for African Women Educationalists in Namibia (FAWENA).
A senior councillor of the Ju|hoansi Traditional Authority, Fransina Ghauz, says preparations for the festival are progressing well.
The Ju|'hoansi Traditional Authority will host the annual San Cultural Festival at Tsumkwe from September 24 to 26.
A 77-year-old Mathias Kaundinge who died on the 3rd of this month remains unburied as his children continue the search for his relatives in Eenhana.
Kaundinge was born in Eenhana but moved to Tsumkwe about 55 years ago.
