Kalahari Bushmen take on mining titan over right to land.
Kalahari Bushmen take on mining titan over right to land Relocated to give way for mining, they want land - and a say Washington Correspondent A BHP BILLITON project in the Kalahari may have run into a small snag: specifically, a 10cm-high pair of antelope horns. Roy Sesana, head of the Bushmen advocacy group First People of the Kalahari, sported them as part of a traditional headdress to a recent meeting with the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington. His charge: an IFC-funded diamond mining partnership with BHP Billiton played a role in their forced relocation from their ancestral homelands. Now they want BHP Billiton's help to get them back.
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