Activists welcome ruling on Bushmen land.(News)

From: The Mercury (South Africa) | Date: December 20, 2006 | Copyright information

BYLINE: Hans Pienaar

The "stronger than elsewhere" resistance in Africa to granting the right to self-determination to indigenous people will be |undermined by a Botswana court decision to reverse the|expulsion of 3 000 Bushmen from their ancestral land.

This view was expressed by activists for the rights of indigenous people, including Survival International, champions of the Bushmen in Botswana. The organisation yesterday welcomed the decision by the Botswa...

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