UPDATED: Six Bushmen arrested for hunting...FREED!

For readers not aware of the dire situation of the traditional Bush communities, it is an issue of ethno-cultural survival in the face of state and economic pressure to either sink or swim.  Forced...

Southern Africa: Totalitarian tendencies...

It is ironic that a couple of days before Human Rights Day here in South Africa, we had to witness the pathetic response from the ANC-led coalition government to the human-rights abuses by police in...

BOTSWANA: Bushmen return home despite police presence

"A group of forty Bushmen have managed to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve this weekend, despite a heavy police presence and attempts to persuade them to stay in the relocation camps. All the Bushmen in the convoy were allowed into the reserve by the...

Alcoholism Is Colonialism

"Many of our urban poor in Western Canada are displaced aboriginal peoples driven to drink thanks to poverty and the wretched history of White Folks poisioning them with firewater. Today the same problem exists for the San People of the Kalahari desert. The direct result of...

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