The Bushmen Geographic location of the Bushmen The Bushmen, or the commonly known as the “san�, are the ancient occupants of South Africa. For more than 2000 years, the Bushmen have inhabited the area around the Kalahari Desert (Eliot 1). Currently, the group occupies the region around South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. The people are said to be the oldest not only in Africa but also in the world. Archaeological evidence explains that remains of rock paintings and other traces of the early culture of the Bushmen have been mainly found in South Africa (Eliot 1). To date, a portion of the Bushmen still inhabit South Africa, with their culture being the oldest existing culture in the world. The historical culture of the Bushmen elaborate that the pastoralist group, referred to as the Khoikhoi, started moving southwards towards the cape, the modern-day Cape of Good Hope