Tjimba people

 ( Ethnic Groups In Namibia ) 

The Cimba , also spelled Tjimba, are a remote, Herero language hunter-gatherer people of the Kaokoveld desert in northwest Namibia and southwest Angola, in the mountain ranges bordering the Kunene River. They continue to use , and use Adenium boehmianum to poison their arrows.Neuwinger, Hans Dieter. 1996. African ethnobotany: poisons and drugs : chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, p. 97.

Their Herero people neighbors portray them as Herero who have lost their cattle and are therefore impoverished, but they are a distinct people, both culturally and physically. Indeed, physically they seem to be a remnant of an indigenous population of a southern African type—along with the Kwadi people, the Kwisi people, and the Damara people—that are unlike either the Bushmen (Bushmen) or the Bantu Herero. The mitochondrial DNA of Tjimba who have been genetically tested is similar to that of Himba people, Herero people, and Damara, suggesting that they descend (at least maternally) from the same Bantu ancestors.