A senior councillor of the Ju|hoansi Traditional Authority, Fransina Ghauz, says preparations for the festival are progressing well.

"Committee members are set up for different duties. Everything must be in order since we will be receiving guests from the Omaheke Region, with three groups, as well as other San people from different regions."

Activities planned for the three-day festival include language workshops focusing on San dialects and oral traditions and a language and heritage preservation workshop on indigenous communities, as well as youth panel discussions on language preservation and education.

Ghauz says the festival is also aimed at bringing San communities and government officials together to discuss challenges affecting their communities, particularly the preservation of indigenous languages.

"Our languages are still behind, years are going, and our elderly people are dying while we have not gained knowledge from them." 

Ghauz further says the San leadership is hoping for San languages to be introduced in schools, with San-speaking teachers teaching the languages from Grade 1 to Grade 12.