The CKGR 'hot potato' gets corporate tongues wagging

During the height of the controversy surrounding the reasons for the 'forced relocation' of the Basarwa - also the indigenous peoples of Botswana by United Nations standards - the First People of the Kgalagadi (FPK) argued that Botswana's produce were "conflict diamonds".

The organisation believed that there was a connection, contrary to government official pronouncements, that Basarwa - their most preferred collective designation is Bushmen - had been moved to give way to mining at Gope inside the CKGR.
The government stated that if it realised that mining there would be of economic value, they would consider it in the future, but that there was currently no mining or intention to mine.