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Title: Petrus Vaalbooi addressing a meeting
Subject: Bushman, San, indigenous, Southern Africa, community, gathering, meeting, speaker, Vaalbooi, Petrus, Khomani (African people)--Claims, Khomani (African people)--Relocation--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape--Claims, San (African people)--Relocation--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape--Politics and government, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12120

Title: Petrus Vaalbooi explains the history and significance of the N|uu language
Subject: Vaalbooi, Petrus ; N|uu language, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani language, San (African people)--Languages, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Petrus Vaalbooi, a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process.Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27134

Title: Elsie Vaalbooi and Petrus Vaalbooi's home
Subject: San (African people)--South Africa--Noenieput, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Noenieput, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Dwellings, Khomani (African people)--Dwellings, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi and Petrus Vaalbooi's home in Noenieput, South Africa. Around 1964, Elsie Vaalbooi moved in with Petrus where he had a job at the Farmers Co-operative.
Identifier: islandora:27087

Title: Petrus Vaalbooi, Print # 90
Subject: Vaalbooi, Petrus, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Petrus is a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process. Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27192

Title: Elsie Vaalbooi and Petrus Vaalbooi.
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie ; Vaalbooi, Petrus, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Men--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi was a fluent N|uu speaker and a member of the Council of Elders. In 1997 she gave the Northern Cape, South Africa's largest province, its moto: Sa ||a !aĩsi 'uĩsi (“We go to a better life”). She passed away in 2002.Petrus Vaalbooi is a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process.Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27193

Title: Jakob Malgas and Petrus Vaalbooi, Print # 104
Subject: Malgas, Jakob ; Vaalbooi, Petrus, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Petrus Vaalbooi and Jakob Malgas were both critical components in the Land Claims research process. Here the two friends discuss an unidentified topic on a dune in the Kalahari.
Identifier: islandora:27187

Title: Nigel Crawhall and Petrus Vaalbooi display trilingual word lists.
Subject: Vaalbooi, Petrus ; N|uu langauge, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani language, San (African people)--Languages, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Nigel Crawhall and Petrus Vaalbooi hold up a trilingual (N|uu, Afrikaans and Nama) language word list during one of their research trips to the Kalahari.Petrus was a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process. Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27131

Title: Petrus Vaalbooi in his mother's kitchen in Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Petrus, San (African people)--South Africa--Noenieput, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Noenieput, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa--Noenieput, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Petrus Vaalbooi is a former chairperson of the San Council and a former member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process. Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27088

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