{"id":3573,"date":"2007-05-21T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/05\/khwa-ttu-san-culture-and-education-centre\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","slug":"khwa-ttu-san-culture-and-education-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/05\/khwa-ttu-san-culture-and-education-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"!Khwa ttu: San culture and education centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just heard from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/home.htm\">Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL)<\/a> member about their recent follow-up  visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khwattu.org\/\">!Khwa ttu: San culture and education centre<\/a>, 70 km north of Cape Town.  The San (sometimes called &#8216;Bushmen&#8217;) are the indigenous people of Southern Africa, and, like indigenous peoples in many countries, they  have suffered dispossession and loss of much of their heritage.   This centre is a space which combines restoration and display of heritage, tourism, and training for the San in &#8220;literacy, entrepreneurship, tourism, health issues, community development, craft production\/marketing and gender awareness&#8221;.  A brilliant idea, and one that needs on-going support (equivalent cultural centres in Australia have had severe problems with trying to be self-sustaining).<br \/>\nFEL members got to visit it in 2005, before it opened.  I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogmios.org\/281.htm\">very impressed<\/a> then. And I gather now that it&#8217;s open, they are getting many school classes coming for tours.  The other thing that impressed me was that the Centre was providing indigenous language classes for the children of the San who were training there.  Now, the children are having mainstream education in Darling, about 20 minutes away by bus, but they attend classes in their own languages and culture in a Saturday school at !Khwa ttu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just heard from a Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) member about their recent follow-up visit to !Khwa ttu: San culture and education centre, 70 km north of Cape Town. The San (sometimes called &#8216;Bushmen&#8217;) are the indigenous people of Southern Africa, and, like indigenous peoples in many countries, they have suffered dispossession and loss &#8230; <a title=\"!Khwa ttu: San culture and education centre\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/05\/khwa-ttu-san-culture-and-education-centre\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about !Khwa ttu: San culture and education centre\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-language-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}