It is very important for any injustices that one Kohistani may believe that they have received to be able to take revenge on the offender. An example of this is that it is ok for a man to kill another man for looking at his wife. They believe that by looking at a mans wife for too long, you are being disrespectful and thus you have done an injustice to their family and now you get to die. Kohistanis sometimes think of brothers as if they were interchangeable, one the social equivalent of the others. This way a man can even a score by taking revenge on the brothers of an enemy if, for some reason, he cannot touch the enemy himself.
In the Bugakwe and Xanekwe groups children are raised based on dependence training. Dependence training is defined as: child rearing practices that foster compliance in the performance of assigned tasks and dependence on the domestic group, rather than reliance of oneself. In the Bugakwe and Xanekwe groups the young male children are still to young to help hunt and gather, instead they are given the tasks of herding and caring for the cattle and goats. They are also given the tasks of collecting a large amount of the water and firewood. However, the young girls are able, as early as 12, to help the older women grind the grain. At age 12, an average of 40 minutes per day was spent processing grain, at age 15, 50 minutes per day, at age 18, 60 minutes per day, peaking at age 30 when women spent an average of 97 minutes per day processing grain.
The subsistence strategies of all the Okavango Delta people are somewhat different from the Kohistani. The Bugakwe and Xanekwe are called Bushmen, which are the aboriginal inhabitants of southern Africa. These Bushman are nomadic hunter-gatherers, however even the Bugakwe and the Xanekwe are different; the Bugakwe forage in both the desert savanna and the swamps while the Xanekwe forage in a riverine. One the other hand the Dxeriku, Hambukushu and Wayeyi people all engage in a variety of subsistence strategies including farming, fishing, hunting, collecting wild plant foods and cattle and goat herding.
