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"A dying Culture - the last bushmen of Botswana are resettled" - 2002.05.30 by WB

 

For 30,000 years, bushmen lived in the Kalahari desert in today's Botswana - but now, after a 17-year struggle, the last of them will be forced out of their ancestral land by their own government. We all witness the death of another traditional culture - unneccessary as many others, but even more tragical, because the "San people"'s culture survived longer than any other on earth. They are forced out of their ancestral land, because of the greed for diamonds - a reason for Botswana's relative wealth.
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"This is the final chapter in a 17-year saga which has seen the relocation of some 2,200 San out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) into resettlement camps by the Botswana Government." writes BBC News-AFRICA
In 1961, Botswana created Central Kalahari Game Reserve - or CKGR - measuring ,52 000 square kilometres, especially for the San ...to provide refuge and the wildlife on which they depend as hunter-gatherers - a haven where they could continue their lifestyle and develop at their own pace." There was varius resistance movements during the long struggle, but one of the last resources they have is a lawsuit the San filed with the help of South African lawyers. It is an uphill battle: as long as the government insists, that the resettlement is "for their own good", Botswana's leaders will not realize, that this neo-colonialistic argument destroyed the homeland of too many original cultures, including Native Americans.


 


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