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Basarwa get another chance at court challenge

[Botswana] Botswana's Gana and Gwi Bushmen, also known as the Basarwa Survival International
The San Bushmen claim the nature reserve is their ancestral land
    JOHANNESBURG

    The Botswana High Court has given the Basarwa another chance to challenge their forceful relocation from the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve, Channel Africa reported on Friday.

    Last year the Basarwa lost the early stages of an attempted court challenge on a technicality but were given leave to appeal the decision.

    Since 1997 the government has moved hundreds of Basarwa, or Bushmen, from Molapo and Old Xade to resettlement camps in Kaudwane and New Xade, but a small number have remained in the reserve.

    Some lobbyists believe they have been relocated to protect diamond mining rights in the reserve from possible claims, but the government denies this, saying it was done to provide better facilities to the communities.

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