Qualla: New Xade https://qualla.com/new-xade en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/k/p/f/new-xade-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: New Xade https://qualla.com/new-xade New Xade: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-xade/ Photo credit User:Nqarega, CC BY-SA 3.0. The people who built this place chose a name for it: Kg'oesakene, which in their language means "looking for life." The government had its own name ready - New Xade - and that is the one the maps use. The gap between those two names holds the whole story. In 1997, more than 1,700 San and Bakgalagadi were moved out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the desert their families had lived in for generations, and brought to a new settlement on its western edge. They did not choose to leave. The clinic, the school, and the borehole here were meant to be a gift. The land they lost was not theirs to get back.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/k/p/f/new-xade-wp/kkpf-new-xade-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full New Xade: Kg'oesakene, Looking for Life https://qualla.com/new-xade/ Photo credit User:Nqarega, CC BY-SA 3.0. Most of the families came from Xade, a settlement some 70 kilometers east, deep inside the reserve. The Botswana government called the move its largest resettlement program ever and justified it three ways: to protect the wildlife, to deliver healthcare and schooling more cheaply...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/k/p/f/new-xade-wp/kkpf-new-xade-kgoesakene-looking-for-life.mp3 0:06 2 full New Xade: A Quarter of a People in One Village https://qualla.com/new-xade/ Photo credit User:Nqarega, CC BY-SA 3.0. New Xade is small, but it concentrates something rare. The G/ui (who call themselves Dcuikhoe) and the G//ana (Dxanakhoe) are among the world's least numerous peoples - together perhaps 4,000 in all of Botswana. In the early 2000s, this single settlement held roughly a quarter of...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/k/p/f/new-xade-wp/kkpf-new-xade-a-quarter-of-a-people-in-one-village.mp3 0:06 3 full New Xade: What the Move Changed https://qualla.com/new-xade/ Photo credit User:Nqarega, CC BY-SA 3.0. Between 2000 and 2001, the anthropologist Junko Maruyama lived in New Xade to document what resettlement had actually done. Her findings were not simple. Health care and wages became easier to reach. But access to the desert's own resources collapsed, and with it the way people h...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/k/p/f/new-xade-wp/kkpf-new-xade-what-the-move-changed.mp3 0:06 4 full New Xade: The Case That Reached the High Court https://qualla.com/new-xade/ Photo credit User:Nqarega, CC BY-SA 3.0. Some refused to accept the move as final. Roy Sesana, a traditional healer who lives in New Xade, co-founded First People of the Kalahari and took the government to court alongside the London-based group Survival International. On 13 December 2006, Botswana's High Court ruled in ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/k/p/f/new-xade-wp/kkpf-new-xade-the-case-that-reached-the-high-court.mp3 0:06 5 full New Xade: Living With Two Names https://qualla.com/new-xade/ Photo credit User:Nqarega, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today New Xade has the shape of an ordinary Botswanan village - tribal office, police post, primary school, the small economy of a place that exists because a government decided it should. Bakgalagadi families have moved in from Kweneng to be near relatives and to try their hand ...

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