Exiles of the Kalahari From: Mother Jones | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Price, Tom | Copyright Foundation for National Progress Jan/Feb 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Forcibly resettled by a Botswanan government eager to clear the way for diamond mining, the Bushmen are battling to regain their ancestral homeland.

IT'S THE MIDDLE OP THE MONTH, and nearly all of the residents of New Xade, a dusty resettlement camp on the edge of Botswana's Gentral Kalahari Game Reserve, are lining up in the muggy heat. Today is food-aid day, and sacks of cornmeal are being tossed from a government truck parked near a mound of dirty cabbage. A wizened woman shuffles f...

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