Survival International turns to British royals

Speaking at a media conference in Johannesburg yesterday, British human rights lawyer and Survival International activist Gordon Bennett said that tribal people living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) should not be criminalised for hunting wild animals to feed their families.

“This is their way of life, they chose it, it is their central part of existence and we urge the conference to issue a statement on tribal subsistence hunting,” he said. Bennett, who represented the Basarwa in their landmark court battle with the government over their forced relocation, was banned from entering Botswana in 2013.