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It may be in the Hereros' interest to portray indigenous peoples as impoverished Herero who do not own livestock. However, the Tjimba, though they speak Herero, are physically distinct indigenous hunter-gatherers. Groups in Angola include the Mucubal Kuvale, Zemba, Hakawona, Tjavikwa, Tjimba and Himba, who regularly cross the Namibia/Angola border when migrating with their herds. The Herero claim to comprise several sub-divisions, including the Himba, Tjimba (Cimba), Mbanderu, and Kwandu. Standard Herero is used in the Namibian media and is taught in schools throughout the country. These differ mainly in phonology, and are largely mutually intelligible, though Kuvale, Zemba, and Hakaona have been classified as separate languages. Within the Otjiherero umbrella, there are many dialects, including Oluthimba or Otjizemba-which is the most common dialect in Angola-Otjihimba, and Otjikuvale. It is a Bantu language, part of the Niger–Congo family. The Herero language (Otjiherero) is the main unifying link among the Herero peoples. The headdress symbolizes their relationship with cattle farming, which is central to the Herero economy and lifestyle The Herero are herders and the plains of central Namibia are perfect for grazing the cows that are foundational to their culture. Herero women wearing traditional Victorian-style dresses and headdress shaped after cattle horns. Things were relatively peaceful for the Herero for the next 150 years or so except for the occasional skirmish with the tribes from the south who were pushed north by South Africans who desired their grazing lands. They spent the next two centuries migrating to southwestern Africa where they settled in central Namibia. Oral history has it that the Herero people group left the great lakes region of eastern Africa in the 1500s. The Herero have also scattered throughout southern Angola. The Herero make up approximately 7% of Namibia's population. Linguistic evidence also suggests that the Bantu borrowed the custom of milking cattle from Cushitic peoples either through direct contact with them or indirectly via Khoisan intermediaries who had acquired both domesticated animals and pastoral techniques from Cushitic migrants.Īpproximately 150,000 Herero live in Namibia and about 20,000 in Botswana.

After the Bantu settled in Eastern Africa, some Bantu nations spread south. Cattle terminology in use among many Bantu pastoralist groups testifies that Bantu herders originally acquired cattle from Cushitic pastoralists inhabiting Eastern Africa. Unlike most Bantu, who are primarily subsistence farmers, the Herero are traditionally pastoralists. They make sour milk and dry meat to use for a longer time. Ovaherero are good in food preservation.Some if the food they preserve is milk and meat. The big ball gown dress and the head gear are the main wear for women while men are mostly seen with leather hats and walking sticks. Ovaherero are known as bold culture keepers. These villages among others are Sepopa,Toromuja,Karee and Etsha.Some of them are at Mahalapye.In the South eastern part of Botswana they are at Pilane.There are also a few of them in the Kgalagadi South,that is Tsabong,Omawaneni,Draaihoek and Makopong Villages In Botswana, the Hereros or Ovahererero are mostly found in Maun and some villages surrounding Maun. There were an estimated 250,000 Herero people in Namibia in 2013. The majority reside in Namibia, with the remainder found in Botswana and Angola. The Herero, also known as Ovaherero, are Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.