On the first anniversary of a historic court judgment, the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari released an open letter to Botswana President Festus Mogae, detailing the ways in which
Botswana's autochthonous Bushmen (or the San people) have won legal rights to return to their ancestral homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, after the High Court of Botswana ruled against
Botswana's president Festus Mogae seems to have suddenly softened his stance towards the Bushmen. He recently told a group of visiting members of parliament from the uk that Bushmen were permitted