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/ 3 December 2006

Botswana opposition slam Bushmen eviction

About 150 members of the main opposition Botswana National Front held a protest march on Saturday against government moves to relocate Bushmen from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Botswana’s high court is expected to rule on December 13 on a legal challenge by the Bushmen against their eviction.

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/ 9 September 2006

Court to rule on Bushmen case on December 13

A three-judge panel said on Friday it would rule on December 13 on a plea by the Basarwa, also known as Bushmen, to stay on ancestral homelands that also harbour vast mineral and diamond potential. The suit, the longest running legal battle in Botswana’s post-colonial history, followed the government’s attempt to evict the Basarwa from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

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/ 5 October 2005

Police admit using rubber bullets against Bushmen

Botswana’s police commissioner said on Tuesday that officers had fired rubber bullets to disperse a group of about 35 Bushmen protesting their eviction from ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The Basarwa tribesmen had been trying to break through blockades and enter the reserve on Saturday, police commissioner Edwin Batshu said.

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/ 3 September 2005

Botswana govt restricts movement in reserve

Botswana’s government on Friday announced the temporary closure of southern and central parts of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, saying this is necessary to contain an outbreak of contagious disease that endangers wildlife. But Survival International said the real reason is to restrict the movement of Basarwa tribesmen.

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/ 27 February 2005

HIV-positive women compete in beauty pageant

A dozen HIV-positive women donned flowing evening gowns and glittering jewellery in Gaborone, Botswana, on Saturday to compete in a beauty pageant aimed at fighting the stigma that still surrounds the deadly virus in this Aids-ravaged Southern African country. Botswana has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection.