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Germany: Alternative Nobel Bushmen in Berlin
16 December 2005 Bushmen Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone this week completed their tour of Europe with a visit to Berlin, where they met prominent German politicians and journalists, and gave a public lecture at a high-profile museum.
Global: Bushman ?alternative Nobel? laureate: Without our land we are dying
8 December 2005 Kalahari Bushman Roy Sesana received the ?Alternative Nobel Prize? on 9 December, and told the world, ??My people love their land, and without it we are dying.?
Botswana: Bushman woman starved to death in government blockade
30 November 2005 The postmortem report of Bushman woman Qoroxloo Duxee has confirmed that she died of dehydration, starvation and shock in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.
Botswana: Alternative Nobel Bushmen journey to Europe
28 November 2005 Two Kalahari Bushmen are journeying to Britain, Sweden and Germany on a desperate mission to stop the Botswana government arresting, shooting and torturing their people and starving them off their land.
Botswana: Bushmen attack BBC radio programme as 'not true'
24 November 2005 The organization of the central Kalahari Bushmen has published a statement denouncing the recent BBC Radio 4 programme 'Crossing Continents', which accused Survival of 'making things worse' for the Bushmen.
Botswana: Local campaign for Bushmen
18 November 2005 Botswanas International Socialist organisation has started a campaign in support of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Botswana: Survival responds to Radio 4 Crossing Continents programme
14 November 2005 Has Survivals campaign for the Gana and Gwi Bushmen made things worse? What do the Bushmen think? A response from Survival to BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents programme.
Botswana: International NGOs condemn Bushman evictions
10 November 2005 Five non-governmental organisations have issued strong statements condemning the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Botswana: Bushman woman found dead in reserve
10 November 2005 The latest victim of the Botswana governments eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen died last week in the Central Kalahari.
Botswana: Court victory for one Bushman family
1 November 2005 The Botswana High Court ruled on Friday 28 October that the government must allow Bushman Amogolang Segootsane and his family to return to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
UK - England: Thrown out for wearing a t-shirt: Oxford Union does a Walter Wolfgang
17 October 2005 Twenty-five protestors from Survival International were bundled out of the Oxford Union by burly security guards on Friday for wearing offensive t-shirts and asking offensive questions.
Botswana: Ethnic cleansing reaches final phase
8 October 2005 Dozens of Bushmen were evicted yesterday from their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Police carried out the removals at gunpoint and then set fire to the Bushmen's huts.
Botswana: Bushman child and two adults shot by police
6 October 2005 Three Bushmen, including one child, have been shot and wounded in recent days by Botswana police in a series of incidents designed to intimidate the Bushmen still surviving inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and force them out once and for all.
Botswana: Arrested Bushmen win Alternative Nobel Prize.
29 September 2005 Five days after their leaders were arrested and beaten, there was a dramatic turnaround today in the fortunes of the Kalahari Bushmen as they learnt they have won the Alternative Nobel Prize.
Botswana: Bushman leaders beaten in custody
28 September 2005 Bushman leaders arrested on 24 September were beaten in custody by policemen including the superintendent, it has emerged today.
Botswana: Botswana: Full-scale crackdown on Bushmen: Leaders imprisoned, children arrested, resisters shot at
25 September 2005 The leaders of the Bushman organisation First People of the Kalahari have been arrested and imprisoned.
Botswana: Bushman receives death threats; government starving Bushmen from their homes
23 September 2005 The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana are being starved from their homes by Botswana wildlife officers, reports a Bushman today.
Botswana: Survival organises London Fashion Week protest against De Beers
20 September 2005 Survival International has organised a protest against De Beers to coincide with London Fashion Week at the De Beers party today, Tuesday 20 September 7pm 9pm (De Beers, 45-50 Old Bond Street, London W1).
Botswana: Disease is spurious reason to close Bushmens reserve vet experts
16 September 2005 A group of internationally renowned veterinary experts have today dismissed as spurious the Botswana governments given reason for the closure of the Gana and Gwi Bushmens reserve.
Botswana: Violence erupts in Bushmens reserve
16 September 2005 Clashes have erupted between Gana and Gwi Bushmen desperate to stay inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, and wildlife officers and police trying to force them out.
Botswana: Bushmens last stand as armed police raid reserve
12 September 2005 Gana and Gwi Bushmen who have returned to their land were today ordered to leave within ten days.
Botswana: Massive assault on Bushman rights
12 September 2005 The Bushmen are facing a new and severe assault on their rights since the resumption of their three-year court case against the government for evicting them from their ancestral lands in the central Kalahari.
Botswana: Reserve sealed off, Bushmen threatened at gunpoint
5 September 2005 Wildlife guards have entered the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and are threatening Bushmen at gunpoint in an attempt to force them to abandon their homes.
Botswana: Court in chaos - government lawyer 'arrested' - Bushman reserve sealed off
1 September 2005 The Botswana governments lead attorney in the Bushman case was today ordered to be arrested and imprisoned.
Botswana: 'We will do what we think is best for them'
27 August 2005 During the latest session of the Bushmen court case, the government's attorney stated, 'We will do what we think is best for them [the Bushmen]'.
Botswana: Government launches crackdown on Bushmen
22 August 2005 The Botswana government has launched a massive crackdown on the Bushmen of the central Kalahari aimed at destroying their way of life.
Botswana: Evictions linked to diamond concessions
19 August 2005 There was a dramatic increase in the number of diamond concessions granted on the Bushmen's land in the year that they were evicted, Botswana's high court heard this week.
Botswana: New Bushman play to be staged next week
10 August 2005 A new 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 South Africa next week.
Botswana: Court adjourned for day trip in helicopter
10 August 2005 Precious days to hear evidence from government witnesses on Bushman evictions are once more being wasted in court.
Botswana: Bushmen's court case restarts today
8 August 2005 The Gana and Gwi Bushmens court case against the Botswana government restarts on Monday 8 August after a seven-week adjournment.
Botswana: Survival International targets Neil Lane
4 August 2005 Human rights organization Survival has today targeted US jewellery designer Neil Lane in its continued battle with De Beers, over the eviction of the Central Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana to make way for diamond mining.
Botswana: Professor Good loses Botswana deportation appeal
29 July 2005 Australian Professor Kenneth Good, who was deported from Botswana last month as a 'threat to national security,' lost his appeal in the Botswana courts on July 27.
Botswana: Government denies Bushman torture and prosecutes victims
28 July 2005 The Botswana government has denied the torture of seven Gana 'Bushmen' by wildlife officials last month.
Botswana: BBC's Newsnight investigates the Bushmen's expulsion
25 July 2005 The BBC's flagship news programme Newsnight has broadcast an in-depth investigation into the Botswana government's expulsion of the Bushmen from their ancestral land.
Botswana: De Beers wrong about Bushman evictions
20 July 2005 Survival will continue its campaign in support of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve despite allegations by De Beers.
UK - England: Supermodel Lily Cole refuses to work for De Beers again
12 July 2005 British supermodel Lily Cole, the current face of De Beers, has stated that she is refusing to work for De Beers again, over claims that Bushmen were evicted to make way for future diamond mining in Botswana.
UK - England: Julie Christie joins protest against De Beers
7 July 2005 Screen icon Julie Christie joined the protest against De Beers and the Natural History Museum last night.
UK - England: Bushmen slam Natural History Museum's Diamonds exhibition - Survival to protest
4 July 2005 Kalahari Bushmen have condemned the 'Diamonds' exhibition opening this week at London's Natural History Museum with De Beers sponsorship.
Botswana: Bushman torture victims speak out
1 July 2005 Seven Bushmen have been tortured last month by wildlife officials in Kaudwane, an eviction site close to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Botswana: Botswana: newspaper reports on horrific Bushman torture
30 June 2005 Botswana newspaper The Voice today reported on the torture of Bushmen, for hunting game in the Khutse Game Reserve, by wildlife scouts.
Botswana: Torture victims now total seven
27 June 2005 Seven Bushmen have been tortured this month by wildlife officials in Kaudwane, a relocation camp close to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Botswana: New York - Kalahari Bushmen evictions take the sparkle off De Beerss NY store opening
23 June 2005 Prominent feminist Gloria Steinem and more than thirty protesters last night picketed the opening of De Beers's first store in America.
Botswana: Bushmen tortured for hunting
22 June 2005 Three Bushmen have been severely tortured by wildlife officials on suspicion of hunting to feed their families.
Botswana: De Beers celebrity store opening loses its sparkle
20 June 2005 Celebrities will this Wednesday 22 June (5.30-9pm) be urged by protesters from human rights organisation Survival International not to cross their picket line at the opening of the first De Beers store in the USA (703 Fifth Avenue, New York).
Botswana: Academic deported 'for links with Survival'
17 June 2005 Botswana's President Mogae has said that he decided to deport Australian Professor Ken Good as a 'threat to national security' over his links with Survival International.
Botswana: Judges order visit to diamond site
16 June 2005 The judges in the Bushmen court case have ordered that the whole court will fly to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, to establish whether preparations for diamond mining are taking place there.
Botswana: Government acted illegally, admits witness
14 June 2005 A government witness has admitted that his department stopped issuing hunting licences to Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, even though it had no legal right to do so.
Botswana: Witness makes mockery of government argument
9 June 2005 Government witness Joseph Matlhare has made a mockery of the argument that the Bushmen were evicted because provision of services in their reserve was too expensive.
Botswana: Government lies on Bushman hunting exposed
8 June 2005 A government witness in the Bushman court case admitted yesterday that there was no evidence that Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve had been hunting using guns and vehicles, or hunting too many animals.
Botswana: Government expert witness fails to justify evictions
3 June 2005 Testifying in the Bushman court case in Botswana yesterday, the governments expert witness in ecology and wildlife management said he felt it unnecessary to advance scientific reasons to back up the eviction of the Bushmen.
Botswana: Government critic to be deported
31 May 2005 A professor who has been a fierce critic of the lack of democracy in Botswana is to be deported. Professor Ken Good lost his appeal against deportation earlier today, and was taken from the court by plain-clothes police.
'Wildlife officials can keep chickens, Bushmen can't'
27 May 2005 Botswana's Director of Wildlife Joseph Matlhare said yesterday in court that wildlife officials working in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve were allowed to keep chickens, but the Bushmen were not.
Botswana: Judges allow Wildlife Director to testify
26 May 2005 The Bushmen court case continued yesterday with the judges ruling that Joseph Matlhare, former Director of Wildlife, should proceed with his evidence.
Botswana: Government lawyers breach High Court rules
25 May 2005 The evidence of the Assistant Director of Wildlife, Jan Broekhuis, concluded yesterday after nine gruelling days in the witness box.
Botswana: Government witness contradicts himself
24 May 2005 In re-examination yesterday, the Assistant Director of Wildlife, Jan Broekhuis, claimed he had 'no reason to believe' that figures in a graph he had drawn were unreliable.
Botswana: Witness exposes government
23 May 2005 Cross-examination of a key witness in the court battle between the Kalahari Bushmen and the Botswana government has exposed the governments given reasons for the evictions as false.
Botswana: Government's reason for evicting Bushmen shown to be false
19 May 2005 The Assistant Director in charge of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Jan Broekhuis, has admitted in court that he ignored a 2001 Bushmen proposal which would have maintained the Bushmen's water supply at zero cost to the government.
Botswana: Wildlife official quizzed over Reserve's management plan
10 May 2005 Cross-examined by the Bushmen's legal team, the civil servant responsible for wildlife parks admitted being mistaken in his assumption that the Cabinet had to approve the management plan for the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Botswana: Government lawyer threatens 'CKGR tour'
9 May 2005 Sidney Pilane, the government's principal lawyer in the Bushmen relocation court case, today threatened to submit an application for the court to tour the Central Kalahari Game Reserve again.
Botswana: Bushmen evicted 'so they could be protected against game'
6 May 2005 The government attorney in the Bushmen court case has explained the Bushmen's eviction by telling the court, 'It was decided that residents should be in areas where they could be protected against game.'
Botswana: Kalahari ecologist: Bushmen live better in reserve
5 May 2005 Kalahari ecologist Arthur Albertson told Botswanas high court this week that the Gana and Gwi Bushmens lives were better in the Central Kalahari where they could hunt and gather than in the government eviction camps.
Botswana: BBCs John Simpson on misery of evicted Bushmen
26 April 2005 In a high-profile article published yesterday, the BBCs World Affairs Editor John Simpson reveals how shocked he was by his visit to the evicted Gana and Gwi Bushmen.
Botswana: Government moves to scrap Bushman rights
18 April 2005 Botswanas government is pushing a bill through Parliament to scrap the key clause in the Constitution which protects Bushman rights.
Botswana: Bushmen to be wiped from Constitution
11 April 2005 Botswana's government is pushing a bill through Parliament to scrap the key clause in the Constitution that protects Bushman rights.
Botswana: US State Department condemns Bushman evictions
6 April 2005 The US State Department has condemned the Bushman eviction sites as being threatened by the lack of employment opportunities and rampant alcohol abuse.
Botswana: Government tries to expel critic
30 March 2005 An outspoken critic of the Botswana government, who has previously attacked its treatment of the Bushmen, has been threatened with deportation.
Botswana: South American Indians campaign for Bushmen
29 March 2005 Reaching out from the forests of South America to the Kalahari desert, members of the isolated Ayoreo tribe in Paraguay have added their voices to the Gana and Gwi Bushmens campaign for their rights.
Botswana: BHP Billiton exploring Bushman reserve without consent
22 March 2005 BHP Billiton, the world's biggest mining company, is exploring the Gana and Gwi Bushmen's reserve without their consent.
Botswana: Bushmen's plea on World Water Day
21 March 2005 As Botswana continues to deny them access to water, the Gana and Gwi Bushmen are issuing a plea to the government to recognise their rights.
Botswana: World Bank in Bushman Reserve
18 March 2005 The World Bank ombudsman is investigating complaints that the Bank has been funding diamond exploration in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, without first consulting local communities.
Botswana: Survival launches Botswana boycott
11 March 2005 Survival International is launching a boycott of Botswana today at the world's largest tourism fair, ITB (Internationale Tourismus-Börse) Berlin. Supporters of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen will give out leaflets outside the fair.
Botswana: Government clamps down on freedom of speech academic to be expelled
23 February 2005 Kenneth Good, professor of political science studies at the University of Botswana for 15 years, has been ordered to leave Botswana. Late last Friday three men arrived at his home with handcuffs to inform him that he had 48 hours to leave the country.
Botswana: Botswana's President prejudges court case
22 February 2005 Botswana's President Mogae told a UK audience yesterday that he would not allow the Bushmen to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. 'I cannot allow them to go back,' he said, prejudging the court case currently in progress.
Botswana: The Bushmen fight back as Botswana's PR efforts flounder
11 February 2005 Three years after the Botswana government evicted the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from their ancestral land, over 200 Bushmen have returned home in spite of attempts to stop them, while Botswana faces increasing criticism in the international press.
Botswana: Three years on, persecution intensifies
2 February 2005 On the eve of the three-year anniversary of the eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, six Bushmen have been heavily fined for hunting to feed their families.
Botswana: Dying father used to evict sons
20 January 2005 Botswana's high court has heard how government officials evicted a dying man from his home in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, and then returned to tell his sons that they would not see their father unless they agreed to be relocated.
Botswana: Bushmen to conclude evidence
14 January 2005 On January 17 the historic court case brought by the Bushmen against the Botswana government resumes.

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