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SOS Bushmen

NEW CHAPTER IN BUSHMEN'S BOOK. (South Africa)

South Africa's largest Bushman settlement started a new chapter in their history on Tuesday.

For the first time ever, the children of Platfontein near Kimberley in the Northern Cape went to school in a proper school building.



An ancient people fight to keep their land and their way of life.

ROY SESANA is a haunted man. His people, the Bushmen, represent Africa's most ancient culture. But their way of life is being wiped out because of a campaign by the Botswana government to move them off the land on which they have survived by hunting and gathering for more than 30,000 years.

By coincidence, it is land on which reserves of diamonds have recently been detected. Botswana already produces 80 per cent of the world's quality jewel gems.
 (Suite)