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SOS Bushmen

The passing of the Bushmen.

THE BROKEN STRING: THE LAST WORDS OF AN EXTINCT PEOPLE by Neil Bennun Viking, £17.99, pp. 420, ISBN 0670912506

It was probably doomed to end badly. A hunter-gatherer people, tied for tens of thousands of years to the landscape and its plants and animals, encounters a technologically advanced people of farmers and sheep-herders, who fence the land in and drive away the herds of wild game.
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MOGAE VISIT TO BUSHMEN DEFENDED

There was nothing improper in Botswana President Festus Mogae's distribution of blankets to a Bushmen community last week, his special adviser Sidney Pilane said on Wednesday.

He was reacting to a claim by NGO Survival that Mogae was trying to influence a coming High Court challenge by Bushmen to a government resettlement programme
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MOGAE BRIBES BUSHMEN WITH BLANKETS, NGO CLAIMS

Botswana President Festus Mogae tried to bribe a Bushman (San) community by giving them blankets ahead of their court bid to be allowed to return to their ancestral land, an NGO claimed on Tuesday.

"Pre-judging the court's ruling, the president told the Bushmen that they should not try to return to their land and also distributed handouts of food, clothing and blankets," said Survival International, a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples.

The Botswana High Commission in Pretoria could not be reached for comment on Tuesday night.
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SAN TAKE BOTSWANA GOVT TO COURT

The fate of one of southern Africa's oldest nomadic tribes, the San or Bushmen, could be sealed when the Botswana High Court hears argument on the issue of ancestral land rights.

The court case, which commences on July 5 with an in loco inspection, could decide the future of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen communities.
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Botsuana.- Los bosquimanos demandan a Botsuana ante los tribunales para recuperar sus tierras ancestrales

 Las comunidades bosquimanas del Kalahari han presentado una demanda
ante los tribunales contra el Gobierno de Botsuana para que se les
reconozca su derecho a regresar a su tierra y a vivir en ella sin
temor a futuras expulsiones, así como a cazar y recolectar
libremente, según informó la organización de defensa de los pueblos
indígenas Survival International.  (Suite)

Botswana Bushmen to appeal eviction from diamond-laden lands

The future of Botswana's Bushmen, ancient indigenous communities still living as hunters and gatherers, may be decided in July when they appeal their eviction from ancestral lands located in the heart of one of Africa's richest diamond fields, a London-based rights group said.

A case brought by 248 ethnic Gana and Gwi Bushmen families fighting the forced eviction from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve was dismissed in 2002, but they won the right to appeal and will be heard by a Botswana court on July 4, Survival International said.
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