For thousand of years the San people have live in the southern Africa by hunting and gathering, but their cultural changed dramatically since 1948. Their cultural changed was mainly affect by their neighbors, and the southern African government.
The San have live with the Bantu-speaking neighbor for centuries, the Bantu have different way of living, they don’t hunt or gather like the San. They have permanent villages and they herd goats and cattle and cultivate gardens. These seem not to affect the San way of living for thousand of years, but as their neighbors’ population and their food production increased, they also created a major impact on San’s water supplies and food resources availability. The goats and cattle own by their neighbors had pollute most of the underground water and eating away most of the grazing that support the wild plants and animal, with all these new problems introduce by their neighbor is hard for the San to solve and maintain their traditional way of living. So as their food resources threatened by their neighbor, most of the San were kind of force to give up hunting and gathering and they started to work as goat and cattle herder, and they were also encourage by the government and international agencies to replace their foraging society with farming.
