The San Culture and Education Centre Celebrate San Culture; Past and Present. As a tourist visiting !Khwa ttu, you will enjoy a unique and highly informative experience. Choose to stay with us for a few hours, a day, or take advantage of our ‘retreat-like atmosphere’ by booking overnight at our camp site, ‘bush cottage ’ or guest house. !Khwa ttu is too close to Cape Town for you to overlook! We are only a 40-minutes drive from the city.

The !Khwa ttu experience is all about the San; a culture that dates back more than 40,000 years. We, the San (sometimes referred to as ‘Bushmen’) are the indigenous – or ‘first people’ of Southern Africa.

Our ancestors were the original hunter-gatherers of Africa who encountered a paradox fate over time: while thousands were persecuted, killed or incorporated into local rural serfdom, some managed to survive in relative isolation and cling to a semi-traditional life-style as recently as the 1960’s.

These scattered small communities became the most studied, researched and filmed indigenous group throughout the world

However, this romantic fascination with our people all too often overlooks the real conditions that most of the 100’000 San of Southern Africa live under today. During the last 200 years, we have lost all ancestral lands and a good part of our cultural identity that is attached to one’s own language and traditional upbringing.

The reasons for this are as manifold as the complex colonial history and African migration movements from pre-colonial to present times. Consequently, today our people are poverty-stricken, desperately marginalized and discriminated against.

However, during the last few decades we have formed our own San organizations and identified relevant programmes and projects. With the assistance of professionals we run education programmes, conduct advocacy work, fight for rights to land and intellectual property and manage projects such as the !Khwa ttu Culture and Education Centre.

Stay Overnight

Guest House

It contains 3 bedrooms (each with two single beds), a kitchen with a large open fire place and 2 bathrooms with showers. This cozy house is a renovated old farm cottage, comes fully equipped for self-catering purposes and the sheltered terrace offers stunning views over the Atlantic Ocean. The Guest house is in walking distance from the restaurant.

Price R595 for the house. (The Guest House sleeps up to 6 guests)
Please bring your own towels.
Please note that our check in time is no later than 17h00.

It contains 2 bedrooms (each with 2 single beds) and a cosy kitchen/dining room with a large open fireplace. The bathroom is semi outdoors and provides an unforgettable shower. This accommodation provides an amazing experience, both rustic and romantic, i.e. there is no electricity but good solar lighting, a geyser, cooking stove and small refrigerator run by gas. It is meant for the more adventurous, who appreciate the crackling of a real fire and a warm shower in the open air but who prefer a little more comfort than camping! The Bush House is located within a natural bushland setting and is only ten minutes drive from the ocean.

Price R450 for the house. (The Bush house sleeps 4 but a sleeper coach could be used for children)
Please bring your own towels.
Please note that our check in time is no later than 17h00.

This unique tented camp is set within an idyllic bushland setting. The camp sleeps 20 persons in five comfortable-sized tents, which house four beds each. The permanent tents are hidden under a protective pole-roof structure and beautiful vegetation with a small , well-designed patio at the entrance. The open-air hot/cold showers and sheltered toilets are specially designed to be in keeping with the natural environment and it offers the visitor an unforgettable showering experience. The circular, semi-roofed boma [enclosure] with its central camp fire protects the visitors from wind and sun. Lights along the walkways, at the tents, boma and ablution block are solar-driven. The Bush Camp provides indeed excellent examples of how to use locally available material.

Price R300 per tent.
Please bring your own towels.
The !Khwa ttu restaurant could arranged all your catering needs.
Please note that our check in time is no later than 17h00.

This facility can sleep up to 20 persons in luxury dormitory-style accommodation. The building is built in the style of an old farmhouse. Space has been well used and the dormitory contains a total of 4 rooms each with its separate entrance. The dormitory has impeccable views from the patio. The dormitory is ideal for groups such as school groups, students and groups participating in workshops. A volleyball court, pool table and TV with DVD available in the recreation room.

Price R95 per person per night. Booking only for groups larger than 10.
Please bring your own towels.
The !Khwa ttu restaurant could arranged all your catering needs.
Please note that our check in time is no later than 17h00.

Forward-thinking businesses and organisations across southern Africa are now looking to demonstrate their commitment to communities and to charitable institutions. If you are looking for a venue that will provide you with top-quality conference or special occasion facilities (such as birthday parties, team-building exercises or weddings), in an idyllic rural setting, then we can provide it. By booking your corporate or special function with us at !Khwa ttu, you can rest assured that not only will you receive an excellent standard of service, but you will also be assisting Bushmen education and training.

In addition to providing a conference room, !Khwa ttu also operates a new, stunningly designed restaurant which can seat up to 60 people. We can also provide guests with a variety of other activities such as guided walks, San Guided Experience,sundowners and picnics, etc.

We can offer you almost everything that the city conference and special occasion facilities can at an extremely competitive price. The unique rural setting of our premises and the fact that by booking our venue you will be assisting the San, will make your choice of !Khwa ttu a very special one! Conference Room If you are looking for a venue that will provide you with top quality conference or special occasion facilities, in an idyllic rural setting, then we can provide it. The conference room has all the necessary equipment, such as Projector with VGA connection, DVD with surround sound, overhead projector and slide projector, flipchart, a/c ect. The conference room can easily seat 40 participants. Meals, coffee and refreshments will be separately organized according to the clients’ special needs. Game drives, sundowners and guided walks could be arranged as additional activities Price R700 for up to 10 participants, R1000 for up to 20 and R1500 for more than 20 participants per day.

 
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