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  • Bushmen beg to keep their freedom

    09/12/2005 5:44:35 PM PDT · by REactor · 43 replies · 665+ views
    The Times (London) ^ | September 12, 2005 | Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg
    THE Bushmen of the Kalahari — among Africa’s last indigenous peoples — are on the verge of losing their ancestral homeland after the Government of Botswana stepped up a campaign to force them into squalid resettlement camps. The Government has sent heavily armed wildlife guards into the Central Kalahari Game Reserve — an area promised to the Bushmen “in perpetuity”. Some 200 to 250 Gana and Gwi Bushmen live in the area, having drifted back after previous evictions. The Government banned all outsiders, including journalists, from the area. It said a disease had been discovered in the Bushmen’s goats, which...