Survival International is at it once again

'The last hunting Bushmen'. I wrote a blog regarding roughly the same issue at the beginning of this year. The issue is about the 'Bushmen', to whom we in Botswana usually less derogatively refer to as Basarwa and about their right to live their traditional life on their ancestral land, the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR).

SI portrays the Basarwa as a tribe living off the land by hunting and gathering under harsh conditions as they have done for millennia. To be perfectly honest, tourism companies trying to attract visitors to their camps and lodges do exactly the same. Pictures of tanned and wrinkled Basarwa, carrying bows and arrows feature next to spectacular photos of leopards and lions in their glossy brochures.