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Kalahari was coined out from the tswana word ―kgala‖, meaning the great vast thirst. The San people have lived in the Kalahari for 20,000 y ears as hunter-gatherers They hunt wild game with bows and poison arrows and gather edible plants, such as berries, melons and nuts, as well as insects. The San get most of their water re- quirements from plant roots and desert melons found on or under the desert floor. They often store water in the blown-out shells of ostrich eggs. The San live in huts built from local materials—the frame is made of branches, and the roof is thatched with long grass. Most of their hunting and gathering techniques replicate our prehis- toric tribes. Their mythology includes leg- ends of a god Chikara, protecting them from starvation and death b y Sacrificing his own life by being hunted in the form of a deer and other wild game the y hunt for food. Bux is the enemy of Chikara and is in the form of snakes which are found in consider able numbers in the Kalaharian desert region. Bantu-speaking Tswana, Kgalagardi, and Herero and a small number of European settlers also live in the Kalahari Desert. The city of Windhoek is situated in the Kalahari Ba- sin. wiki