ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dynamics of life in native reserves and other "reserves," both "native" and "game."Rhetoric notwithstanding, Herero moved to their allocated reserves. According to Werner, by 1928, 43 percent of all Herero speakers were resident on reserves and by 1949 this had risen to over 50 percent. There is a problem of locating cases dealing with Herero-Bushman conflict, because police rarely patrolled the native reserves. Special police patrols were mounted to the reserves only after numerous representations were made by irate Herero. Herero have always, like good pastoralists, valued their cattle highly and been swift in retribution for any harm done to their herds. Bushmen have always been afraid that Herero would penetrate further into their hunting grounds and take possession of their land. Young Bushman children were frequently left with Herero until they were adult, when they would usually return to their natal group.
