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SOS Bushmen

From deep in the Kalahari desert, a letter of thanks from the people we reminded - `You are not forgotten'.

IT IS not the easiest of tasks to get a letter out from the parched heart of the Kalahari desert. But from there - in the old game reserve where 140 die-hard Bushmen live in hiding from the rangers of the Botswana government who seek to evict them - a message has come.

It is addressed to the readers of this newspaper. In it these representatives of Africa's most ancient culture - the "red men" who were there long before the black and the white men came - send thanks.
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Discrimination And Dependence - the Plight of the San (Angola)

"They are animals. They are our slaves. They depend on us for their life." The Angolan farmer in Cunene province was speaking of his casual workers. The farmer is a Kwanyama, a Bantu ethnic group. The workers are San, also known as Bushmen, Southern Africa's oldest inhabitants.
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