Final argument in Bushmen case delayed
Final arguments in Botswana's longest-running court case, in which San Bushmen are fighting for rights to ancestral land, will be heard next month after judges agreed to an adjournment request on Monday. The Bushmen's lawyer said he had applied for an extension as he had only received written submissions from state attorneys last Wednesday.
"We were due to start the final oral arguments today [Monday], but I did not receive the defence's written submissions by August 11, as had been agreed," Gordon Bennett told Agence France-Presse at the court in Lobatse, east of the capital Gaborone.
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