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December 13th marked the first anniversary of the Kgeikani Kweni’s (First People of the Kalahari) landmark victory in Botswana’s High Court. As relayed in the following video produced shortly after the victory, the court ruled the government’s eviction of the Kgeikani Kweni was ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’, and that they have the right to live, hunt, and gather on their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

After the court ruling, the government continued to deny their rights. In fact, they stepped up their persecution of those who try to hunt on the reserve. At least 53 Kgeikani Kweni have been …

A couple days ago, Survival International released a report comparing the arguments used to justify the assimilation and dispossession of the Kalahari Bushmen with those used to defend the transatlantic slave trade. A great deal of the rhetoric used by the government is profoundly similar.

This comparison may come as a shock to some, but I want to make sure you realize this is just a drop in the bucket of the historical and contemporary experiences of indigenous People throughout the world…. The same logic and reasoning used to justify …

Nearing the beginning of July, twenty-one Gana and Gwi Bushmen were arrested for hunting on their traditional lands in Botswana. This despite the High Court of Botswana ruling that the Gana and Gwi have the right to live on their land, and that the government acted against the law when they were evicted from their lands in 2002.

From Survival International - Justice Phumaphi said in his ruling, ‘The simultaneous stoppage of the supply of food rations and the issuing of SGLs [hunting licences] [was] tantamount to condemning the remaining …