The Undefeated Nama In Botswana (Part 5)

In this they had the advantage of years of conditioning as well as their indigenous knowledge.

Thus it was that, finding that their own horses could not be readily adapted to tsamma consumption, the German military responded by introducing camels into the region. The existence of camel populations in Botswana today is a legacy of the fact that the paramilitary Bechuanaland Protectorate Police (BPP) followed the German example by establishing their own camel corps to patrol the Kgalagadi.