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| Bushman elder, CKGR, Botswana 2004
© 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival |
An outspoken critic of the Botswana government, who has previously
attacked its treatment of the Bushmen, has been threatened with
deportation. Professor Kenneth Good, an Australian academic who has
worked at Botswana University for 15 years, was given 48 hours to leave
the country. However, his lawyers won a reprieve in the courts, and
Prof Good's future will now be decided in a court hearing expected in a
few weeks. One of his legal team, Duma Boko, received a death threat,
apparently from Botswana's intelligence services. Dr Boko also acts for
the Bushmen in their court case against the government. Prof Good's
deportation order came shortly before he was due to present a paper
criticizing the lack of democracy in Botswana.
