Deadliest Roads | Botswana: Run for your Life | Free Documentary
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Published 2022-11-27
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The real lives of the people of Botswana is far from the usual picture postcard image. CHAIDI, MONTY, MAREKO, SEKERE live in the heart of a country that is nothing but one vast desert: Botswana. Everybody struggles to keep their job and support their family, but in the all-prevailing fine sand, it’s impossible to move around without a 4-wheel drive. And with tens of thousands of wild animals on the roam such as lions and elephants breaking down is not a reassuring prospect.
Once a year, only the OKAVANGO delta, which flows into this desolation, provides a little coolness and vital resources. However, this year the water did not come. The drought is a serious threat to the people and animals. The struggle for survival is getting more intense and global warming makes the problems worse. A merciless war over water is being waged between the elephants and farmers like Monty. Taking his domestic animals to water becomes a way of the cross and flocks are dying. In what looks like an apocalyptic setting, Lake NGAMI has changed its appearance to become a vast puddle of mud.
MAREKO struggles to catch the few remaining catfish amidst the hippos bogged down in stifling slime. To deliver supplies to his grandmother, penniless CHAIDI walks for hours over a sun-baked track. At the end of the trail, hungry children await. In Botswana, the entire community is organized around cattle breeding and is under threat from the terrible effects of global warming. And yet, in the Kalahari Desert, SEKERE and his mother, MOGATLANYANA, the oldest representatives of southern Africa, known as the Bushmen, still remember how to live in harmony with nature by using water from roots and dew. Imbued with the spirit of freedom, they are trying to return, in an old pick-up, to the land of their forefathers from which they were driven.
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All Comments (21)
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A couple of things about Botswana 🇧🇼 Botswana is well known for having some of the best wilderness and wildlife areas on the African continent. 38% of its total land area are devoted to national parks, reserves and wildlife management areas. Generally speaking Botswana has a low crime rate compared to other countries in Africa. There is also no recent history of terrorism and violent attacks on tourists are very rare. Off you go! Because it sounds and looks like an amazing place (I know we say that about all the places - but let’s be honest - the world IS an amazing place no matter where you go, and where you are. If you look, you’ll always discover something amazing.
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As a Zambian 🇿🇲 I must say" I have so much respect for our fellow neighbouring Botswana's 🇧🇼 We love you guys.❤️❤️
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Deadliest roads series are my all-time favorite. Thank you for the upload. 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Hakuna Matata.
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I live in Botswana and this was an eye opener. Life in the city and towns is not so glamorous but these rural places make it seem like otherwise. These are the people that made our country what it is today
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I'm from Botswana n living in the capital city, this documentary rily saddened me, can't believe some fellow countrymen suffer this much. Even though life is though in cities, villages n towns, it's not as bad as wat I watched here.
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Botswana...our wonderful neighbors. Dumelang batswana Love from Zimbabwe
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I want to make something clear ,these are rural areas of the country. This is not how all Batswana live we're quite developed so under no circumstances should people think this depicts how we all generally live. Just like any country there are under developed parts of the country and these are one of the places sadly. Love and light to my Country 🇧🇼❤️
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What I remember is driving in that heat. Very hot and very dry. It's a different kind of hot weather. Used to supply cattle feed all over Botswana. Thanks again for this documentary it brought back good memories of my time in Botswana from Serowe with love.
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As someone from Botswana I must make something’s clear here. The Bush men we’re not pushed out of the National park because of Diamonds, according to Botswana laws, it’s not even allowed to mine on national parks. They were taken out and had new villages built for them from scratch, with houses, schools and health facilities because of all Botswana minority groups the San (bushman) were/are the most hard hit by poverty, have no access to services, no education, healthcare etc therefore you can’t build schools, houses and clinics inside national parks. By the way they did take their case to court with help of civil society groups and lost the case which was the longest court case in Botswana. Recently a San man also took government to court because he wanted to be allowed to be bury his father in the national park. I personally feel sorry for the San if they suffered as a result, but development comes with sacrifices, our fathers also lost their land to national projects. Most bushman now are highly dependent on government social welfare and that’s the challenge we have, I know there’s an affirmative action to give them priority in government jobs so we will get there
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No matter what the narrator might say, that toyota goes where no bentley would be able to go
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Very beautiful country ❤ with very well-mannered people, so respectful people, Botswana 🇧🇼, i always feel safe when traveling in Botswana 🇧🇼. A special country in Southern Africa.
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Hi I'm living in Botswana. Im a foreigner. Really really it is a beautiful country. If go remote area u can feel and see the nature's gift. U can feel and breatha pollution free air. We are the people thinking we living in a very sophisticated world. Once u come and see this country u really feel it hw god gifts this land to human beings. Ya it is a dryland. But it is heaven for many lives. In rural area may be rough but the people hearts are velvet. 95% people really taking care of their land especially one who living in remote.
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I used to live there for many years. God bless this great country and her loving people!
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It's true what they say: Africa is not for the faint-hearted. Strength to the people of Botswana.
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Thanks for covering Botswana 🇧🇼. Good thing we had good rains so far
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These are undoubtedly the best documentaries about Africa on YouTube. Thank you.
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When I feel like I may have had a tough day, or things haven't gone the way I want, I watch a video like this and realize how selfish I am being and have no clue what a bad day really is compared to these guy's!
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I have long waited for this about my country, big up to FREE DOCUMENTARY 👏👏👏
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I have been to Botswana twice, last time was in 2002. Loved mokoro sailing, fishing for Bream and game watching, observing Okwango delta from above while flying from one camp to another. One of my guide Patrick took me on a two night trip to Kalahari bushmen people territory. I spent two days with them. They showed me their hunting skill, trap setting, bush craft. In the night, after dinner, they organised their Trance Dance. I love the people and country.
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Great content. Watching from Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪.
