Bushmen of the Kalahari are back in court this week....

[Stew]

I saw this in The Guardian today and thought some others might be interested:

Bushwhacked
The Bushmen of the Kalahari are back in court this week in Botswana, fighting their government for their very survival. If they lose the case, they will not be allowed to live or hunt on the land that they have inhabited without damage for thousands of years, even though mining companies and tourists are allowed in. As if that were not bad enough, they also stand to be disenfranchised. The Botswanan government is now pushing a bill through parliament to remove Bushmen protection from the constitution. The clause to be scrapped forms the central plank of the Bushmen's case in the court. Spokesman Roy Sesana is distraught: "This government is a hyena hunting us - they want to chase us until we collapse and die. We don't know if there is such a thing as justice in Botswana. Maybe the court will tell."
www.survival-international.org

 

[Neiltoo]

Please, Please, Please give what ever you can to Survival.
You can do without that new firesteel or whatever but these people cant do without their land.
Most of us practice bushcraft, these people live it.

 

[ChrisKavanaugh]

There is a classic film of Bushmen hunting a giraffe that is de riguer for anthropology classes. My prof at the time gave us a ( then) sad update. The Bushmen were used as trackers in South Africa's counter insurgency against it's marxist nieghbors while the culture was being destroyed. It's ironic, I just sold my SMLE at a handsome profit to an unreconstructed Boer here in California. Stew/Neil, $200 USD will be in the mail tommorow

 

[zackerty]

Chris,
I have posted elsewhere in this forum...but I served alongside those fine MEN.
I kept contact when I left the Military, but time erases memories.
Most of the men I knew, are now dead, or in jail, or alcoholics...
Another time...another place....

 

[Mutley]

Shame to completly ban survival, maybe restrictions on animals etc' but not the whole thing.

 

[Biddlesby]

Oh dear that's terrible. I shall follow the case, and may the bushmen be victorious .