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/ 13 December 2006
Botswana’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that more than 1Â 000 Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari Desert and should be allowed to return. The court ruled 2-1 for the Bushmen in the key issues of the case, which saw Africa’s last hunter-gatherers take on one of the continent’s most admired governments.
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/ 9 September 2006
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.
Final arguments in Botswana’s longest-running court case, in which San Bushmen are fighting for rights to ancestral land, will be heard next month after judges agreed to an adjournment request on Monday. The Bushmen’s lawyer said he had applied for an extension as he had only received written submissions from state attorneys last Wednesday.
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/ 8 February 2006
Botswana’s San Bushmen fighting for rights to Kalahari land went back to court on Wednesday with lawyers mooting the possibility of an out-of-court settlement. The Bushmen are taking the government to court to challenge their eviction four years ago from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
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/ 19 January 2005
A San Bushman appealed to Botswana’s High Court on Wednesday to overturn an eviction order and allow him to live in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, describing it as the land of his great grandparents. Matsipane Mosetlhanyane was testifying in a watershed land-claim case in Botswana.