Page A4 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Saturday, January 20, 19 Government issues new "j truck-safet- y South African clan now surviving as a .tourist attraction : from beneath dry riverbeds, from desert plants, or from the stomachs of the animals they hunted. regulations At Kagga Kamma, the terrain and animals are different. The clan finds it difficult to track on the reserve's rocky ground, so unlike the red dunes of the Kalahari. So they eat donkey meat 'slaughtered for them. By JOHN DANiSZEWSKI .Associated Press Writer KAGGA KAMMA GAME Wear-Tin- g RESERVE; South Africa only a leather loincloth and a Iheadband adorned with beads Jmade from ostrich eggs, Buks squats beneath a rock cliff and patiently strings a hunting bow. d ; men, women and children, all slightly built with d dark yellow skin and faces, huddle around in the easy Jntfrnacy of an extended 1 NAMIBIA r 200 mite J 200 km rl J BOTSWANA Half-nake- By CATHERINE O'BRIEN Associated Press Writer r H A if Y heart-shape- hunter-'gathe- rr .,'NATAL family. The; scene is little changed from itheStone Age. These 40 Kalahari the only known clan ;Bu,shmen jrtill holding to the language, culture iind identity of a people who Joncel wandered all of South Africa want to retain a life much like ;that of the first humans, j But for the past five years their 'only path to survival has been to become tourist exhibits. They are the star attractions for visitors to the windswept rockland ! AP The older Bushmen bring back samples of the desert flora to teach the children, because the roots and leaves central to their existence do not grow in this part of the Northern Cape. Although they live three hours by car from Cape Town with its 'of "the private Kagga Kamma jGame Reserve in South Africa's Northern Cape Province. l" Visitors pay SI 60 for a night in Tourists can also see the eland, geiiisbok and other game reintroduced to the reserve's moonscape 'terrain. " t the- cash-strapp- J J ; : ! g. lands. ed. their intermarried clan having been researched by South African academics for at least seven ; decades. "That is their land," says Roger ! Chennells, a human-right- s lawyer 'who has taken up their cause. I ".They are the last Bushmen left in South Africa and they were the first people in the entire country." ; Their parents and grandparents the harsh Kalahari ; wandered i Desert, knowing every branch, g Iroot and animal. Bushmen's and tracking skills were legendary, so good that the white South African army used them in fight jng guerrillas. Bushmen could survive where ! no one else could, taking water J J hunt-zin- 14 Triple Load Dryr-fiu- 220 S. 700 East ?rovo-3- different from vermin. Blacks lllll IBTII.I except Buks' clan have been assimilated into modern culture since the 1960s, says Louis Vorster, an anthropologist and law professor. Vorster is helping the only other significant group of Bushmen in South Africa: soldiers recruited in Angola and Namibia who were Aj?SBlB3t: 7i.m.Bl1:3ip.m.e 1700 South Orem Coin Laundry 73 1 I nafllnn WjMhAr Dryws-HuWashf 700 S. Orem V Block E. of Slate Si WBIIIIIIIM1II1IIMI t' , I- - : I - i1 u many lives. "This is a real giveaway to the trucking industry," said Joan Claybrook, president of the consumer group Public Citizen and a leader of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways. .is The consumer groups IIMII. H H llll IIIHH I Ml .1 Turn!!. 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GET YOUR FREE, h ?Vr fei IIIIB . 1 NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE, I AP Photo ec-jn-e "Financing recom- mended the guards be 16-1- 8 es from the ground and more flexible to absorb more energy from a clan, the last cohesiye group of native recover part of their ancestral lands in the Kalahari Bushmen in South Africa, now stays in the Kagga Gemsbok National Park, South Africa, recently. The Kamma Game Reserve and meets visitors. resettled with their families in The years following the evicdispossession took place," says South Africa after fighting for the tion of the last Bushmen from the Land Affairs Minister Derek white-le- d military. Since 1990, park in the 1970s is remembered as Hanekom, hinting of a comprothese 4,000 people have been in a dark chapter by the clan. mise to give them a future role in farmlimbo in an tent Many married mixed-rac- e running the park. "This claim camp near Kimberley, awaiting ers in the area and melted into should be converted into an opporwhat South Africans call the "colpermanent housing. tunity, rather than a threat, to In setting up the Kalahari park, ored" population. Others squatted enhance the attractiveness of the the Parks Board debated, whether ,on farms or worked for subsistence park by really involving the Bushthe native Bushmen should be wages. Buks drove a road grader. man people in a creative way, but classified as people or fauna. They were ravaged by alcohol without being patronizing." abuse. They stopped living as Whether or not the Bushman: Unfortunately for them, the Bushmen were ruled to be people " Bushmen and their culture was culture survives in South Africa,' and therefore were ordered to get dying. their enduring legacy is all around . j out of the park. Ironically, their rescue began in in their elegantly muted rock paint-- , To the Parks Board, the Bushthe 1980s when they were "disings that date back tens of thoumen were a thorn in the side. covered" by a tour operator. That sands of years. White conservationists; wanted led to Kagga Kamma's owner What will their future be? them out so they would stop offering them a place to live in "One could certainly question for in their 1991 it is a wise thing to give them a if agree"poaching." exchange Buks' father, Regopstaan, now ment to hold daily "meetings" whole lot of land and not help them very strongly, because they 95, whose Bushman name means with visitors to his game reserve. "survivor of death," is considered "Under the circumstances, I am will simply hunt and gather and the oldest living Bushman and was as happy as can be," Buks says of roam and sleep where the game is among those first studied in 1936. his life at Kagga Kamma. good," says Chennells. President Nelson Mandela's Regopstaan's father killed a gemsbok in the area in the 1920s and government seems willing to listen went to jail for it, even before the to the land claim. national park was declared. "Unambiguously, in my view, 7 Available" 96G-423- 1 I wt discusses the prospects for his clan to Buks, 45, con- South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Angola lands that no one else wanted then. Today, there are perhaps 30,000 left, primarily in sparsely populated Botswana and Namibia. But all 1"! yJXl Murray safety groups Highway expressed strong opposition to the rule, which is the first government change in the standard in four decades. Critics argue that the guard still would not be low enough and strong enough to save , nt-day 640 E. tit snow. i - H sidered Bushmen beneath contempt. Even in the 20th century they would often be roped like animals and put to work by farmers. The Bushmen retreated to the deserts and dry savannas of prese- Wshr mi "-- .'c ' ,1-- " Bushmen, a people, lived across southern Africa before Zulus, Xhosas and other black tribes began migrating from central Africa during Europe's Middle Ages. European settlers arrived in the 1600s. Small in stature and gentle in nature, the Bushmen were easily Subjugated. Dutch colonists hunted them, viewing the hunters as little VI ILIatrtan Tnn 14 TripteToad Wahr V: non-Negro- id : w;ere forced out in the 1970s. Most of the adults in Buks' clan j were born in or near the park. I Their link to the land is undisput- - J0 Mayim Top Loading : - . The clari's land claim argues the state has a moral obligation to its aboriginal people. "It's the fact that they were kicked" off that land in 1931 and they'd been there forever prior to that," Chennells says. J Si AS Hours: 7 a m to 1 1 .30 p m 700 East Provo Coin Laundry ' ness." White rulers took over that ter-ritory, 450 miles to the north, to establish the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in 1931. Hindered by; rules against their traditional hunting methods, Bushmen gradu- ally drifted away, until the last Al iVV's 1,. and highways, the Bushmen say they have no fears that 21st century life will tempt away their young. "Our children will learn what we teach them," Buks, the clan's spokesman, says firmly. "If we go there, we will die." The Bushmen want to get back a share of their old home in the wilderpark, a Connecticut-size- d ness of sand and scrub wedged between the borders of Botswana and Namibia. With their own land, they will preserve their ways, Buks says. "The most important thing to us is the bush life. If you are in the bush, that brings the family together," he says. "There is no interference then. Without that, you cannot hunt, you can't have traditions, the trance dance, the smiling, anything. It is the location that is important. "That's in my heart, the wilder- la meeting with the Bushmen. well-bein- J , cellular telephones, skyscrapers bungalow and Many, people come away with "slightly uncomfortable feeling ; tlfat the last Bushmen are an exhib-- J it.at a zoo. " ; 'They had reached the point there were no more where j options," says the Bushmen's clos-- 1 est white friend, Kate Andrews, a Cape Town musicologist who J heads a foundation devoted to their I "If they hadn't done thai I think they would have just disap- into being Western ' peared and not ordinary the Bushman kept people I traditions," she said. ' At Kagga Kamma, they meet I tourists once a day and they have security, shelter and income in exchange for following their ancient ways. i But it is a poor compromise. J "Andrews and other friends of ' the Bushmen say hopes for a more dignified life rest on an appeal by the clan to South Africa's post-- , apartheid government to be J allowed to return to their ancestral y-Bur- btn Cape Town , aJ'Bushman-style- " (J SOUTH AFRICA The govWASHINGTON ernment announced this week that new truck trailers must have lower rear guards by 1998 to prevent cars from sliding beneath them in collisions. rear-en- d Critics have called the underride guards at the back of truck trailers "roving guillotines" because cars often slide under them, causing severe head and upper body injuries to car occu- ' pants. This kind of crash took the life of actress Jayne Mansfield in 1967. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributes more than 400 deaths annually crashes. to such rear-en- d The agency estimated that between nine and 19 lives would be saved each year with the rule. "When a car can't stop in time and underrides the rear of a tractor-tthe result can be catarailer, strophic injuries to the car occupants as parts of their vehicles are sheared off," said Ricardo Martinez, who heads NHTSA. ; The rule adopted by the agency calls for guards to be lowered from the current 30 inches from the ground to 22 inches. The agency also required the guards to be stronger and have enough flexibility to move five to better inches upon impact from crash and a dissipate energy reduce injuries and deaths. 373-888- 8 , :