Country: Namibia

Group: San

Date Finalized:11/27/2020

Team:  Ann Thomas (lead), Johanna McCombs, Ethan Pelland

Content Warning: forced labor

Approximate Time Period: 1800-present

San have traditionally lived as mobile foragers, occupying regions in Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana. By the 1800s, many of the San engaged in slave-like servant relationships with Herero families (Gordon, 2021). In the modern day, the San are especially vulnerable to forced labor. This primarily manifests in the trafficking of children “for forced labor in agriculture, cattle herding, domestic work, and commercial sexual exploitation. San children are particularly vulnerable to forced labor on farms or in homes” (U.S. Department of Labor, 2017).

The data quality is rated as a 2 because there is some evidence but not enough reliable resources for specific details.

Sources

  1. Gordon, R. (2021). San Servility in the Omaheke, Namibia. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 54(2).
  2. Refugees, U. N. H. C. for. (n.d.). Refworld | Chronology for San Bushmen in Namibia. Refworld. Retrieved November 14, 2020, from https://www.refworld.org/docid/469f38c1e.html
  3. U.S. Department of Labor. (2017). U.S Department of Labor’s 2017 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. Retrieved from https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2017/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf