Post #14: Globalized communities

For this post i am writing about the San people of Botswana. The San people also called the Bushmen are indigenous people of south Africa. In Botswana the government Began removing the San people from their land the Central Kalahari Game Reserve saying that they wish to ensure the park's integrity as a nature reserve, and that they want to integrate the San into the country's social and economic life, they wanted the San people to become part of the globalised world. The removals started in 1997, and most of the community has since been relocated to settlements outside the park. In exchange for their traditional hunting-gathering existence, the Botswana government says they have given land, goats and cattle. The government also says the San people were provided with schools, water supplies, and health services and a fund was set up to provide them with training and start-up facilities for small-scale enterprises. The government said that they wanted to bring the San peoples standard of living to the same as everyone else but the San people have a different view of things, they believe they were uprooted from their homes because the government wanted to start a diamond mine on the reserve and have fought to get their land back and won a long court battle and have now returned to their land. This article explains in detail the San peoples fight to get their land back BOTSWANA: The San can return home now