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[35]: 2 Loss of land is a major contributor to the problems facing Botswana's indigenous people, including especially the San's eviction from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. [35]: 2 The government of Botswana decided to relocate all of those living within the reserve to settlements outside it. Harassment of residents, dismantling of ...
would ultimately lead the San people to "the largest historical and active resistance" against the government's efforts to relocate them. [7] In 2002, the San People, alongside their representatives, took the government of Botswana to court to fight for their right to remain in the CKGR and access the natural resources within it. [7]
The Botswana Gazette [1] The Business Weekly and Review [2] Botswana Guardian [3] [4] Botswana Youth Magazine [5] The Daily News, a government-owned media outlet [6] Farmers Guide; The Midweek Sun [3] Mmegi [7] The Monitor; The Patriot on Sunday; The Sunday Standard [8] The Voice; Weekend Post [9]
October – The government of Botswana expels all but 250 of the San people from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. [2]: 32 The Three Dikgosi Monument is inaugurated. [citation needed] 2006 December – The courts find that the forced displacement of the San people is unconstitutional. [2]: 33 2007 – Uranium deposits are discovered in Botswana.
A legal battle began, and in 2006 the High Court of Botswana ruled that the residents had been forcibly and unconstitutionally removed. The policy of relocation continued, however, and in 2012 the San people (Basarwa) appealed to the United Nations to force the government to recognise their land and resource rights.
He has traveled to Europe and the United States a few times to stop Botswana government from forcing his people to evict their land. [2] In 2002, the First People of the Kalahari took the Government of Botswana to court to seek the right for the relocated people to return to the reserve. The protracted court case attracted substantial ...
The San have challenged the government in court several times regarding their right to remain on their land without interference. [39] Ian Khama , President of Botswana , stated that Survival International is "denying them and especially their children opportunities to grow with the mainstream", forcing Indigenous peoples into maintaining "a ...
In 1984, Education for Development in Botswana became the first book to be entirely typed, bound, and published in Botswana. [59] A non-governmental organisation to promote the interests of the San people, the Kuru Development Trust, published Voices of the San (2004). [61] Several cultural factors can dissuade writers and publishers in Botswana.