Survival renews attack on De Beers

Survival claims that there is exploration currently on-going at Metsiamanong in the CKGR. "Its new diamond exploration programme will be devastating for the Bushmen, and the reserve's ecology," Survival says. De Beers however denies the allegations.

Survival's Director, Stephen Corry, says: "We are dismayed that De Beers feels that it can now return to the reserve whilst the situation with the Bushmen is still unresolved. Presumably it hoped no one would notice. Hundreds of Bushmen still languish in relocation camps, unable to return home because the government won't let them hunt or use their water borehole".