News about FPK / Roy Sesana
2010-02-17 Bushmen denied right to vote. Survival International.
Five Bushmen communities from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana were omitted from the electoral register in 2009. Four hundred Bushmen were therefore denied the right to vote during the country's general election.
2009-08-06 Stop that hunting. The Economist.
Three years ago, Botswana's High Court ruled that the Bushmen should be allowed to live and to hunt on their ancestral territories. But Botswana's authorities issue no hunting licences ...
2008-04-22 Botswana Bushmen refused borehole. BBC News, UK.
The government of Botswana is refusing to allow Kalahari bushmen access to a water borehole in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
In 2006, the Bushmen won a landmark legal victory against the government allowing them to return to their ancestral lands in the reserve.
2007-12-04 Botswana: San still waiting to return to ancestral land. All Africa.com.
One year after the Kalahari Bushmen's landmark victory in the Botswana High Court to be allowed to return to a game reserve that had been their home for centuries, Roy Sesana and his organisation First People of the Kalahari still languish in resettlement camps outside the park.
2006-12-13 Botswana Bushmen win land ruling. BBC News, UK.
Roy Sesana and his organisation First People of the Kalahari win a landmark case that allows San Bushmen to return to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. They had previously been forcibly evicted by cutting off their water supplies, and had been moved to resettlement camps outside their ancestral lands.
