However, according to author Josef Gugler, Uys " the production of the film. The stories he told reviewers varied." Unlike what was presented in "The Gods Must Be Crazy", N!xau did not lead a hunter-gatherer lifestyle; he grew up as a herder on a farm in Botswana, before moving to Namibia to work as a cook. In the 1980 documentary film "Nǃai, the Story of a ǃKung Woman", directed by John Marshall, footage of the filming of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is used. The documentary shows San restricted to living in a reservation established by South African authorities in Tsumkwe, Namibia. The San there are shown to not be hunter-gatherers; they are instead dependent on the government for food and other aid, with some suffering from tuberculosis.