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 LOBATSE, Botswana (AP) - Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that the country's Bushmen are entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a decision hailed as a victory for indigenous peoples.
The Basarwa tribesmen had accused the government of evicting them — in many cases at gunpoint — to exploit the diamond and mineral potential of a reserve the size of Switzerland.
The government claimed the tribe agreed to move as part of efforts to protect the reserve, that it had already owned the mineral rights, and that the tribe had been compensated for the land.
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