Posts tagged "Bushmen"
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April 12
‘We are educated in the things we know. We can pass on our knowledge to the rest of the world. I can be a lecturer, even though I have not been to school.’
- Daquoo Xukuri, Bushman, Botswana
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April 12
‘If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.’
- Roy Sesana, in his acceptance speech on behalf of First People of the Kalahari for the Right Livelihood Award in 2005.
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December 11

Success!

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The Kalahari Bushmen are home again.

Driven from their land because of its diamonds, the Kalahari Bushmen of Botswana are returning. John Simpson writes a positive report for the Guardian.

Bushmen celebrate

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October 11
Two Bushman boys sit on the pale sands of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana, surrounded by tsamma melons.  In times of drought, Bushmen traditionally quenched their thirst with the juice of the melons.  Now they are celebrating drinking water from the Mothomelo borehole for the first time since it was capped by the government nine years ago; a significant step towards their full return to their ancestral lands.

Two Bushman boys sit on the pale sands of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana, surrounded by tsamma melons. 

In times of drought, Bushmen traditionally quenched their thirst with the juice of the melons.  Now they are celebrating drinking water from the Mothomelo borehole for the first time since it was capped by the government nine years ago; a significant step towards their full return to their ancestral lands.

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September 11
Botswana Bushman Roy Sesana performs the iconic ‘trance dance’ in the Kalahari. The Bushmen finally have access to water after a court victory over the country’s government earlier this year.

Botswana Bushman Roy Sesana performs the iconic ‘trance dance’ in the Kalahari. The Bushmen finally have access to water after a court victory over the country’s government earlier this year.

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September 11
Back on their ancestral lands, Bushman children enjoy water at the newly re-opened borehole in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, for the first time in nine years. Photo by Vox United

Back on their ancestral lands, Bushman children enjoy water at the newly re-opened borehole in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, for the first time in nine years.

Photo by Vox United