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.
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December 11
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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.
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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.
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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
