Many bushmen returning to homeland despite government opposition.(Chicago Tribune)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: October 10, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

METSIMANONG, Botswana _ When the government trucks arrived in February, dumped the community's water tank and its contents onto the desert sand and then hauled it away, Sethshwakgwa Gidu and most of her neighbors in this village deep in the central Kalahari desert decided they had no choice but to yield to government pressure to relocate.

As the families watched, workers dismantled their thatched stick huts and loaded their children and belongings onto trucks bound for New Xade, a resettlement camp 10 hours away. Once there, many received government payments to buy livestock ...

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