
International NGOs condemn Bushman evictions
Five non-governmental organisations have issued strong statements condemning the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Five non-governmental organisations have issued strong statements condemning the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
The Botswana High Court ruled on Friday 28 October that the government must allow Bushman Amogolang Segootsane and his family to return to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Twenty-five protestors from Survival International were bundled out of the Oxford Union by burly security guards on Friday for wearing offensive t-shirts and asking offensive questions.
Dozens of Bushmen were evicted yesterday from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Police carried out the removals at gunpoint and then set fire to the Bushmen's huts.
Three Bushmen, including one child, have been shot and wounded in recent days by Botswana police in a series of incidents designed to intimidate the Bushmen still surviving inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and force them out once and for all.
Five days after their leaders were arrested and beaten, there was a dramatic turnaround today in the fortunes of the Kalahari Bushmen as they learnt they have won the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'.
Bushman leaders arrested on 24 September were beaten in custody by policemen including the superintendent, it has emerged today.
The leaders of the Bushman organisation First People of the Kalahari have been arrested and imprisoned.