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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLAN - ‡KHOMANI SAN COMMUNITY 1.3 Structure The report includes: • A broad description of the study area including a review of regional issues, access and transport infrastructure, environmental issues, tourism attractions, existing products and markets, visitor gateways and routes through the area, and major tourism trends; • An introduction to each land unit within the planning domain, including the social and historical context, environmental issues, tourism resources, existing markets and products; • Specific tourism proposals for each land unit, including new developments and activities, recommendations on improving existing products, suggested zoning, required support infrastructure, visitor management requirements, and branding or marketing needs; and • Sufficient detail for proposed interventions, developments and activities to allow opportunities to be packaged for implementation. To conclude, the report provides a summary of suggested regional interventions, possible financial and economic impacts, recommended priorities for implementation, and a proposed implementation strategy. Annexed to this document is a list of references and people consulted, copies of market survey forms used, environmental/development guidelines for tourism and a template environmental management plan (EMP). PAGE 10
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLAN - ‡KHOMANI SAN COMMUNITY 2. The Regional Context 2.1 Planning domain The planning domain comprises several parcels of land situated inside and near the KTP in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa (refer to Map 1): • 80,000ha of prime game viewing land along and south of the Auob River inside the KTP, on which the community have preferential commercial rights (referred to as the Commercial Preference Zone, or V- Zone); • 473,830ha of land between the Auob and Nossob Rivers inside of the KTP, which is assigned for symbolic and cultural use (referred to as the Symbolic and Cultural Zone, or S-Zone); • 27,769ha of San Heritage Land inside of the KTP, which together with heritage land of the Mier community (a further 30,134ha) is co-managed with SANParks as a contractual national park called the !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park; and • 40,748ha of Kalahari farm land situated adjacent to the KTP and further south, which is made up of eight individual properties being Sonderwater, Rolletjies, Erin, Witdraai, Uitkoms, Andriesvale, Miershoopan and Scotty’s Fort. 2.2 Historical & social context Most paleoanthropologists and geneticists subscribe to the “Out of Africa” theory that the ancestors of modern humans arose some 200,000 years ago in Africa, with the earliest modern human fossils being found at Omo Kibish, Ethiopia (Shreeve, 2006). They also agree that ‘all the variously shaped and shaded people of Earth trace their ancestry to African hunter-gatherers’. Ancestral DNA markers turn up most often among the San people of Southern Africa and the Biaka Pygmies of central Africa, as well as in some East African peoples (Shreeve, 2006). From this we can reasonably conclude that the San form part of our ancestry, as well as being the first people of southern Africa, as is evidenced by a vast rock art record that is to be found on the subcontinent. The San were pushed into remoter and drier regions by two major relatively recent migrations of other peoples. Approximately 2,000 years ago the sheep and cattle herding Khoekhoe peoples migrated down from Namibia and Botswana, pushing San people away from the coast and river areas, and around 800 years ago a major migration of Bantu-speaking peoples entered eastern South Africa (Huffman, 2006). It would seem that early relations between hunter-gatherers and the agro-pastoralist peoples were often positive and involved a degree of intermarriage with the retention of the independence of San languages and culture. PAGE 11
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