Derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning " the great thirst ", or Khalagari, Kgalagadi or Kalagare, meaning " a waterless place ", the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water.

He has since appeared in starring and supporting roles in many films, including Francis of Assisi, The Fiercest Heart, The Longest Day, The Comancheros ( sharing leading man status with John Wayne ), Convicts 4, The Day and the Hour, Signpost to Murder, Shock Treatment, Rio Conchos, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Sands of the Kalahari, The City Beneath the Sea, An American Dream, The Last Escape, The Invincible Six, Night of the Lepus, Shatter, Captain Apache, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room, Guyana: Crime of the Century, Treasure Seekers and The White Buffalo.

Since the mid 1990s, the central government of Botswana has implemented a relocation policy, aiming to move the Bushmen out of their ancestral land on the Central Kalahari Game Reserve into newly created settlements.

South African film-maker Richard Wicksteed has produced a number of documentaries on San / Bushman culture, history and present situation ; these include " In God's Places / Iindawo ZikaThixo " ( 1995 ) on the Bushman cultural legacy in the southern Drakensberg ; " Death of a Bushman " ( 2002 ) on the murder of Bushman tracker Optel Rooi by South African police ; " The Will To Survive " ( 2009 ) which covers the history and situation of Bushman communities in southern Africa today ; and " My Land is My Dignity " ( 2009 ) on the San's epic land rights struggle in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

The town and the accompanying industrial area of Sishen came into being because of iron ore mining activity in the Kalahari — it has one of the five largest open-cast iron ore mining operations in the world.

The entire area is covered by thick vegetation, has abundant natural resources in its perennial water supplies, natural shelters, rich forest flora and fauna, and bears a significant resemblance to similar rock art sites such as Kakadu National Park in Australia, the cave paintings of the Bushmen in Kalahari Desert, and the Upper Paleolithic Lascaux cave paintings in France.

Other musicians and bands Cutler has performed and recorded with over the years include Tim Hodgkinson, Lindsay Cooper, Peter Blegvad, John Greaves, René Lussier, Jean Derome, Tom Cora, Aksak Maboul, The Residents, The Work, Duck and Cover, Les 4 Guitaristes de l ' Apocalypso-Bar, Kalahari Surfers, Hail, Biota and Brainville 3.

In these northern Kalahari groups, the killing of a large animal indicates that a man has mastered the art of hunting and is able to support a family ( Marshall 1976 ).

The Bantu-speaking Tswana, Kgalagadi, and Herero and a small number of European settlers also live in the Kalahari desert.

The only widespread Khoisan language is Khoekhoe (" Nàmá ") of Namibia, with a quarter of a million speakers ; Sandawe in Tanzania is second in number with about 40, 000, some monolingual ; and the Juu language cluster of the northern Kalahari is spoken by some 30, 000 people.

* The Okavango River, in the Kalahari Desert, is part of an endorheic basin region which also includes the Okavango Delta, Lake Ngami, the Nata River, and a number of salt pans such as Makgadikgadi Pan.

By a 2 – 1 majority, the court ruled the refusal to allow the Basarwa into the Central Kalahari Game Reserve ( CKGR ) without a permit, and the refusal to issue special game licenses to allow the Bushmen to hunt, was " unlawful and unconstitutional ".

The Kalahari Bushmen go to the spirit world to entreat with their god for the lives of the sick, to make rain, and to control the movements of the game animals.

This game is sometimes also called " Kalahari ", possibly by false etymology from the Kalahari desert in Namibia.

ǂHoan is spoken in southeastern Botswana, just south of the Khutse game reserve at the southern fringe of the Kalahari desert, around the villages of Tswaane, Dutlwe, Mathibatsela, Motokwe, Khekenye, and Salajwe.

He and his family control the Tswalu game reserve in the Kalahari, set up by his friend Stephen Boler.

The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa was established on 31 July 1931 mainly to protect the migrating game, especially the gemsbok, from poaching.

As of 2006, more than 1, 000 Bushmen intended to return to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, one of Africa's largest protected nature reserves.

Ancient dry riverbeds — called omuramba — traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season.

*! Xabbu — a Kalahari San and a friend of Renie.

* the southern and southwestern regions, which are the driest of all, are drained by the Molopo river along the South African border and the Nossob river through the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, and are technically part of the basin of the Orange river.

The Kalahari Desert ( in Afrikaans " Dorsland ", meaning " thirst land " or " thirsty land ") is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa extending, covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.

The surrounding Kalahari Basin covers over extending farther into Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and encroaching into parts of Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Their range extends from the northwestern part of South Africa through the Kalahari desert into Namibia and Botswana.

In April 2000, a rare orange Prehnite was discovered at the famous Kalahari Manganese Fields in South Africa.

** Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands ( Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe )

Hoodia, a succulent plant, originates from the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.

In 1993, she played a young wife in the CBS miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove and got a starring role as the leading character Nonnie Parker, a South African girl who must cross of the Kalahari, in the teen-aimed Disney film A Far Off Place.

Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa.

Archaeological evidence shows that the Khoikhoi entered South Africa from Botswana through two distinct routes – traveling west, skirting the Kalahari to the west coast, then down to the Cape, and travelling south-east out into the Highveld and then southwards to the south coast.

There is a significant linguistic difference between the northern Bushmen living between Okavango ( Botswana ) and Etosha ( Namibia ), extending into southern Angola on the one hand and the southern group in the central Kalahari towards the Molopo, who are the last remnant of the previously extensive indigenous San of South Africa.

The Bushmen of the Kalahari were first brought to the Western world's attention in the 1950s by South African author Laurens van der Post.

Colopus is a genus of Gekkonidae that is found in the Kalahari desert, in the nation states of Botswana, Namibia, and the Republic of South Africa.

The dissertation, The dynamics of degassing and explosive volcanism in kimberlite pipes, involved experimental work on the gas-fluidization of particles and fieldwork at Jwaneng Diamond Mine in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and the De Beers Venetia Mine on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border.

He emigrated to South Africa during 1949, and from then until 1954 was a researcher at the International Locust Control Centre at Cape Town University, investigating methods of locust control and going on expeditions to the Kalahari Desert, the Knysna Forest, the Belgian Congo and Mozambique.

* Extremes: Survival in the Great Deserts of the Southern Hemisphere: explored some of the world's great southern deserts, tracing the history, culture and commonalities of Southern Africa's Namib and Kalahari deserts, South America's Atacama, and Australia's Red Centre ( December 2004-August 2005 )

The Morokweng crater ( or Morokweng impact structure ) is an impact crater buried beneath the Kalahari Desert near the town of Morokweng in the Northwest Province of South Africa, close to the border with Botswana.

Columbia began to fragment about 1. 6 Ga ago, associated with continental rifting along the western margin of Laurentia ( Belt-Purcell Supergroup ), eastern India ( Mahanadi and the Godavari ), southern margin of Baltica ( Telemark Supergroup ), southeastern margin of Siberia ( Riphean aulacogens ), northwestern margin of South Africa ( Kalahari Copper Belt ), and northern margin of the North China Block ( Zhaertai-Bayan Obo Belt ).

Kuruman is a town with 12, 701 inhabitants in Northern Cape province of South Africa, famous for its scenic beauty and the Eye of Kuruman, a geological feature bringing water from deep underground to the surface in the Kalahari Desert.

H. procumbens are mainly found in the eastern and south eastern parts of Namibia, Southern Botswana and the Kalahari region of the Northern Cape, South Africa.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

* Kalahari Resorts, indoor waterpark ( largest in America ) in Sandusky, OH and Wisconsin Dells, WI

" Thus, the Bushmen of the Kalahari who occupy the largest geographic region where click languages are spoken are viewed as a relict population far removed from the place where click languages probably originated.

By size, it is the third largest park of the country, after the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Gemsbok National Park, and is the most diverse.

Elephants living here are Kalahari elephants, the largest in size of all known elephant populations.