ACCRA, Ghana — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen living a traditional life ...

NEW XADE, Botswana -- In the end, the Bushmen of Molapo village could neither hunt nor gather, they said. Nor could they tend crops, collect firewood or lead their goats to pasture. After tens of ...

Belese was one of 530 Bushmen the Botswana government forced out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in January 2002, citing the need to protect wildlife. In their zeal to make the harsh desert ...

Botswana would rather see wealthy foreign tourists on the Bushman’s lands – many of them western trophy hunters – as well as foreign corporations digging for resources underneath it.

Botswana's High Court ruled on Wednesday that hundreds of Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to return.

Bushmen in Botswana say the government has not honored legal their right to live and hunt for survival in the Kalahari reserve.

Renewed political discord hit the presses this week from London about the San Bushmen of Botswana. Jenny Tonge (House of Lords peer) responded to an editorial in The Guardian, which attacked her ...

Bushmen in Botswana’s Kalahari desert are torn between their ancestral traditions and the demands of the modern world.

In the fourth installment of Heart of Dryness, author James G. Workman explains the historic transformation of water across Botswana's Kalahari. Workman continues to follow Qoroxloo, showing how the ...

Hundreds of Botswana Bushmen who have won a temporary reprieve against eviction are calling on government to recognise their settlement.

In the sixth installment of Heart of Dryness, author James G. Workman explores the traditional wisdom that has kept the Bushmen alive despite incredibly water-scarce conditions and how the national ...

Botswana Notes and Records, Vol. 32 (2000), pp. 107-115 (9 pages) This paper shows that the presence of Bushmen people in Botswana has been mapped at the level of the territories of individual bands ...