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| 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. >>>more... "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
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