Farewell to the Kalahari; Bushmen Being Forced From Preserve From: The Washington Post | Date: March 27, 1988| Author: Blaine Harden | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

After seven years of dust and dying wildebeests, the Kalahari has bounded back to life. It has been raining since November.

The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, whose forebears have hunted and gathered food here for more than 10,000 years, are again, after the longest drought of their lives, surrounded by the makings of the good life.

The gray sandy soil is thick with gemsbok cucumbers and tsama melons. Sorghum and corn are ripening in hand-tilled fields. Herds of...

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