Bushmen plead to return home from 'place of death'
Southern Africa's Bushmen are making a last-ditch legal plea to go back to their ancestral lands in the Kalahari. Fred Bridgland reports from Johannesburg
GAKEOLATE Keilwe, an African Bushman, was born about 60 years ago in the centre of the Kalahari Desert in the time, he said, of "the smallpox, the locusts and Hitler".
His birthplace, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, was given to the Bushmen in 1961 by the British colonial government of Bechuanaland, an act reaffirmed at independence five years later by the first president of Botswana, Sir Seretse Khama.
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GAKEOLATE Keilwe, an African Bushman, was born about 60 years ago in the centre of the Kalahari Desert in the time, he said, of "the smallpox, the locusts and Hitler".
His birthplace, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, was given to the Bushmen in 1961 by the British colonial government of Bechuanaland, an act reaffirmed at independence five years later by the first president of Botswana, Sir Seretse Khama.
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