Sandy Gall describes the genocide the Botswanan government is waging to clear the Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve On the sideboard in my dining room in Kent there is a small bowl of ...

Bushmen forced out of the Kalahari desert by Botswana's government won a landmark legal victory today as the country's high court ruled they had been illegally removed and should be allowed to return.

The Bushmen of Botswana yesterday appeared to have won a famous legal victory in their long-running battle to hang on to ancestral lands in the giant Central Kalahari game reserve. The Botswana high ...

Thirty years after diamonds were first discovered in Botswana's Kalahari desert, the Bushmen have been evicted, and the first diamonds have gone on sale. Happy Valentines! Survival International ...

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When the Bushmen were relocated they were given cattle or goats to encourage them to become herders The Kalahari sun is merciless: Two young women and two children little more than a year old are ...

CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE, Botswana — They were on the move beneath an unyielding sun, and for a while their approaching shapes seemed just another part of the desert, their tattered clothes ...

The Kalahari bushmen are a people living in a place, and perhaps a time, that is no longer their own. Chief Maiteela Segwaba seems a forlorn figure, sitting in his kraal chatting to his friends - as ...

An appeals court in Botswana has ruled that indigenous Bushmen can drill wells for water on their traditional land in the Kalahari Game Reserve. The judgement is a remarkable victory for the Bushmen.