Survival International
Supporters Protest Once Again the Treatment of the G/wi
Survival International and its supporters protested last week the continuing abuse of the G/wi people for two very different reasons, both of which received attention in the press. On Wednesday, March 12, SI staged a demonstration outside Chatham House in London, where three influential women from Botswana were scheduled to be part of a seminar […]
San Win Major Court Case
Botswana’s High Court announced its decision on December 13: the government must allow the G/wi and G//ana San people the right to return to their traditional homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Evicting the San from their land was “unlawful and unconstitutional,” the court ruled. Furthermore, the people must have the right to gather […]
The G/wi Simply Want to Go Home
“The San Bushmen represent a 100,000 year-old culture that we should consider one of the world’s treasures,” said Desmond Tutu in a recent statement about the G/wi and G//ana people. Archbishop Tutu made his dramatic appeal on November 6 to the government of Botswana and the rest of the world to end the tragic eviction […]
G/wi Court Case To Conclude Shortly
The court case between the G/wi and G//ana people and the government of Botswana has again been delayed, this time at the request of the lawyer for the San peoples. Final oral arguments before the High Court of Botswana had been expected to start on August 28, but the written submission by the government, promised […]
G/wi Court Case Faces More Delays
The government of Botswana expelled the G/wi and the G//ana from their traditional desert homes several years ago, but the court case filed by the dispossessed San peoples is again facing delays. Two weeks after the resumption of the case, it is already one week behind schedule. The judges hearing the case delayed the proceedings […]
Protests Continue on Behalf of the San Peoples
Pressure continues to mount around the world on behalf of the G/wi and G//ana peoples who were displaced from their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) by the government of Botswana. Advocates for the rights of the two San societies claim that De Beers, the huge international diamond corporation, is behind the government’s […]
Tensions Grow in Botswana over G/wi Appeal
The G/wi appeal to Botswana’s highest court over their expulsion from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) has generated a lot of publicity this past week. However, it is not clear if the international concern about the traditional San society will help them at all. The G/wi and the G//ana, another San society, argue that the […]
