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Article

18 May 2002

Author:
James Lamont, Financial Times

Last stand of the Kalahari's hunter-gatherers [Botswana]

...the state is helping to speed up the process by moving the desert-dwellers [Basarwa bushmen] off their ancestral lands and into permanent settlements...Although hotly denied by Debswana, the state's joint venture with mining company De Beers, and the Ministry of Minerals, non-government organisations also suspect there may be mineral rights issues involved.