After 30,000 years, they're evicted - Bushmen fight to remain on ancestral lands
When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as if he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
The day he went away, his father was so angry he wouldn't say goodbye and his mother cried herself to sleep. All the long day's drive on government trucks away from the desert where the Bushmen have lived for 30,000 years, Belese knew he was betraying his parents. His father told him not to go, but he did not listen.
After two terrible years, Belese came home, his heart beating quickly. As the sandy Kalahari Desert track uncoiled like a snake before him, he fretted about what his elderly parents would say.
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The day he went away, his father was so angry he wouldn't say goodbye and his mother cried herself to sleep. All the long day's drive on government trucks away from the desert where the Bushmen have lived for 30,000 years, Belese knew he was betraying his parents. His father told him not to go, but he did not listen.
After two terrible years, Belese came home, his heart beating quickly. As the sandy Kalahari Desert track uncoiled like a snake before him, he fretted about what his elderly parents would say.
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08 Janvier 2005 à 11:40 dans
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