News from South Africa

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    South Africa: Khomani Bushman elder dies
    28 September 2006 Sanna, the Khomani ‘Bushman’, whose photograph features on Survival’s ‘Bushmen aren’t Forever’ poster campaign, died last month.
     
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    Bushman play to be staged next week
    25 September 2006 A play telling the story of the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen and their campaign to return to their land is being staged in Bloemfontein in South Africa next week.
     
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    South Africa's indigenous people condemn Bushman evictions
    18 January 2004 Two organisations representing some of South Africa's indigenous peoples have spoken out in support of the rights of the Gana and Gwi 'Bushmen' of Botswana to return to their land.
     
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    South African court rules 'indigenous peoples own their own land'
    14 October 2003 On 14 October 2003, in one of the most historic court judgments ever made in favour of indigenous peoples, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled that an indigenous people had both communal land ownership and mineral rights over their territory.
     
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    Bushmen win royalties for their desert expertise
    30 June 2003 'Bushmen' have eaten parts of the hoodia cactus to suppress their hunger and thirst during long hunting trips and journeys in the desert. Now, a US drug company is using the plant to develop what may become a new anti-obesity drug.
     
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