Saleshando wants apology for 'cultural genocide'

Roy Sesana
Roy Sesana

The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) wants President Ian Khama to apologise to Basarwa and compensate them for what they term as "untold hardships and miseries that they have had to endure".

In his response to Khama’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, BCP President Dumelang Saleshando demanded that Khama acknowledge the government’s mistreatment of Basarwa, and said they deserve to be treated like human beings.

“All they want is to live their own lives in the way they know best without government interfering with their way of life and attempting to assimilate them into foreign cultures.  This is cultural genocide,” Saleshando said.

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