Bushmen holding out in reserve appeal for help
The last group of Bushmen still holding out inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have smuggled out an appeal for help.
The last group of Bushmen still holding out inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have smuggled out an appeal for help.
Survival has published an interview today with director Stephen Corry, conducted by a supporter from Botswana.
Eight Bushmen who were beaten and tortured by wildlife officials in April are appearing in court this week.
The Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana have sent a desperate plea for help to actress Angelina Jolie, who gave birth to a daughter on Saturday in neighbouring Namibia.
The lawyers representing the Gana and Gwi Bushmen of the Kalahari will present their final arguments to the High Court of Botswana in August this year.
Botswanas longest-running court case, brought by the Bushmen against the Botswana government, concluded on Tuesday. Over 10% of the 243 applicants have died in the government resettlement camps since the case was filed.
During cross-examination by the lawyer for the Bushmen, the main government official in charge of the 2002 relocation of hundreds of Bushmen claimed he could remember almost nothing about the exercise.
The Botswana governments lawyer claimed in court this week that the Gana and Gwi Bushmens home in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) belonged to the government, and that it could decide who was allowed to live there.