Bushmen lived a virtually unchanged hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve for almost 30 000 years. Botswana government policy has always been to let them be. But diamonds are big business in Botswana, and now that De Beers has been sniffing around, the Botswana government thinks it's a good idea to forcibly remove the Bushmen from the Reserve (for their own good of course).
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