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Bushmen Launch Appeal Over Right To Water


Bushmen Launch Appeal Over Right To Water   The Bushmen of Botswana have lodged an appeal against a High Court decision that denied them access to water on their ancestral lands.   In July, Justice Walia dismissed the Bushmen’s application for permission to use a well on their lands inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, expressing sympathy for the government’s position that ‘having chosen to settle at an uncomfortably distant location, [the Bushmen] have brought upon themselves any...

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