Botswana's Bushmen Part 2 - The Bushmen's Last Dance - BBC

Botswana's rapid development has been fuelled by the discovery of diamonds. Now the government are intent on relocating the ancient Bushmen people from their ancestral lands in the Kalahari Desert - but why? Clip from the Bushmen's Last Dance. Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos and watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Earth YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcearth

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• Botswana
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• Central Kalahari
• Relocation
• Gobe Mine
• Mining
• De Beers

[ASPRINALARD]

Stephen Corry makes me sick, honestly! For him and his organization to claim to be humanitarian and try to destroy a country like Botswana that is so brilliant at looking after it's people disgusts me. He makes no sense! Even that woman who claims that they are not advocating for boycott but in the same breath says people should not buy Botswana diamonds shows what kind of people we are dealing with here! Pathetic. Botswana, just do the work that benefits your people and ignore these assholes!

[ASPRINALARD]

Basarwa , not bushmen as called, are not a separate entity in Botswana; they are part of the population that government is responsible for. Also they are all over the country, not just in the game reserve in question. Tourism and diamonds fund social and economic reforms that have lifted this country out of poverty, together contributing 55% to GDP. Setting side land for conservation helps these people here like the rest of population. No one is stealing anyone's land here! This is sad bullshit!

[bemaniac2]

So are bushmen to remain illiterate and uneducated for infinity as the rest of the country moves ahead? please. there is definately discrimination against them and the government has not had the best approach at times, but to try and paint us as some sort of genocidal dictatorship trying to kill off indigenous people for some stones is so preposterous. We are a democracy, have never been involved in internal/external conflict. Survival International Must Go.

[bemaniac2]

so are bushmen to remain illiterate and uneducated for infinity as the rest of the country moves ahead? please. there is definately discrimination against them and the government has not had the best approach at times, but to try and paint us as some sort of genocidal dictatorship trying to kill off indigenous people for some stones is so preposterous. We are a democracy, have never been involved in internal/external conflict. Survival International Must Go.

[bemaniac2]

@Tianaism THANK YOU I could not agree more. Firstly I must state that whilst the governments policy to bushmen has been imperfect, if there were diamonds there and they started mining, I would TOTALLY support that. It is because of diamonds that my country is not a basket case like the majority of post colonial african countries. It is because of diamonds that we have healthcare, education, development etc. so I support diamond mining in the KGR if they are there.

[browndogsarebetter]

@x4812k Your priorities are misplaced not to mention arrogant. Let them sort out their own issues.

[x4812k]

@browndogsarebetter why is caring about other people and cultures mutually exclusive with caring for your own country? your disdain is unfounded and ridiculous, and your implication that the relocation of the bushmen is a "so-called" plight is nothing short of ignorant. 

[browndogsarebetter]

I find it interesting that white Brit's in London care more about the so-called plight of relocated nomads than the problems in their own country.

[GiantSnail]

You can always count on the BBC for high-quality content, yet I find it hard to believe that the government of Botswana would spend the extra money relocating the Bushmen before beginning to mine.

[MaxSafeheaD]

@Tianaism

It's not the UK that exploiting it's colonies - I certainly haven't earned a pennt from this scam. It's the rich exploiting the poor.