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SOS Bushmen

DESERT NOMADS LOVE TO TALK

The tribes of the Kalahari Desert are diminishing despite a traditional occupancy dating back at least 20,000 years

The nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa have little contact with the outside world.

Collectively known as the Bushmen, these tribes are the oldest inhabitants of the desert, where they have lived for at least 20,000 years.
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BOTSWANA - "GO HOME" BUSHMAN AID AGENCY TOLD.

Survival International has been told to go home and reconsider its programme to stop the Botswana government's relocation of Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, it was reported on Thursday.

The programme amounted to dishonest blackmail of the government, and was harming Botswana's economy, delegates told Survival head Stephen Corry late on Wednesday at the closing session of a two-day workshop on the issue.
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Kalahari Bushmen row rages in gem-rich Botswana.

A long-running row is heating up over Botswana's Bushmen, made famous by the books and films of Laurens van der Post and fighting to retain ancestral lands in the heart of southern Africa.

The few dozen Bushmen remaining in the vast Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) pose a dilemma for the government as it tries to preserve an ancient culture while at the same time using diamond revenues to eradicate poverty.
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