End near for Kalahari Bushmen
The Times
September 14, 2005

HARARE: The Bushmen of the Kalahari, among Africa's last indigenous peoples, are on the verge of losing their ancestral homeland after the Government of Botswana stepped up a campaign to force them into squalid resettlement camps.

The Government has sent heavily armed wildlife guards into the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, an area promised to the Bushmen "in perpetuity". Between 200 and 250 Gana and Gwi Bushmen live in the area, having drifted back after previous evictions.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16597862%255E2703,00.html



http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=977

Just like the 1800's in this country and so many other places around the world. Some things never seem to change.

It's just heartbreaking that this is still going on, as if people had not learned. :(

I find this attitude of treating primitive people as a species worth preserving quite fascinating.

At least the devout religious communities in Pennsylvania give their children the option of joining the outside world if they so choose.

Perhaps some of these Bushmen would like to partake of the opportunities that civilization provides.

Not that they should be forced off the land. Of course not, it's clear that they have property rights, and they should be respected.

I find the parallels between the Bushmen in Africa, and the government trying to take their land, and Americans who live on lucrative property, and the U.S. government taking their land to increase tax revenue very interesting to contemplate.

That's what you get when you have governments trampling over property rights, like they are collectively owned by those in power.

These Bushmen don't have a choice!

It's their CULTURE, their way of life, that is worth preserving, at least to them!

My people. :(

>>These Bushmen don't have a choice!

It's their CULTURE, their way of life, that is worth preserving, at least to them!>>

I concur. I would say it's about the autonomy afforded by these people. If they do not wish to assimilate, have we stripped them of the means to live as they want to? But, yes, we should not treat them as some sort of endangered species on a nature preserve. This sort of attitude is condescending at best.

>>That's what you get when you have governments trampling over property rights, like they are collectively owned by those in power.>>

Does our analysis end with property rights, or do we dig into an examination of the underlying social relations which give rise to the system of private property?

ebola

I am sure it has to do with a lot more than property rights just as it did with my ancestors. Same history, different country.

My people. :(

huh? :confused: