Hundreds of San hunter-gatherers recently removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve are attempting to raise the $15,000 to $30,000 necessary to bring their case back to Botswana courts, after it was dismissed on technicalities last month. The San are contesting the constitutionality of their forced removal from their ancestral homelands and hope to win back their rights to hunting and the use of natural resources in the area. Advocacy group Survival International recently advertised in Toronto on their behalf during an international mining conference which was attended by representatives of Botswana’s diamond industry.
