Court victory leaves sour taste for refugees

But as he sits across the table, speaking of the recent court victory against government, allowing the refugees to stay at Dukwi, Kakula softens his expression.

In suing government and challenging its efforts to repatriate them back to Namibia, the refugees know they have done something quite unAfrican. When Kakula, other leaders of the Caprivi rebels, their wives and children ran through the bushes of the Okavango in 1999, Botswana extended open arms of safety.