On the first anniversary of a historic court judgment, the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari released an open letter to Botswana President Festus Mogae, detailing the ways in which the government is still preventing them from returning to their ancestral land. On December 13, 2006, the Bushmen won …
On the first anniversary of a historic court judgment, the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari released an open letter to Botswana President Festus Mogae, detailing the ways in which the government is still preventing them from returning to their ancestral land. On December 13, 2006, the Bushmen won …
Botswana's autochthonous Bushmen (or the San people) have won legal rights to return to their ancestral homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, after the High Court of Botswana ruled against their eviction by the government. Following the eviction, the Bushmen had been living in resettlement camps just outside the …
Botswana's president Festus Mogae seems to have suddenly softened his stance towards the Bushmen. He recently told a group of visiting members of parliament from the uk that Bushmen were permitted to hunt in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve provided they used traditional weapons like bows and arrows and not …
