Watch a video report on the Bushmen evictions

Sue Lloyd Roberts investigates the evictions of the Bushmen from their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in this special edition of the BBC’s ‘Reporters’ series.

From the report:

“De Beers told us that they did not want to be interviewed and that the debate (about the Bushman evictions) had been going on long enough. There’s plenty of exploration going on in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve today, even though officially no one is supposed to be living here we found warnings of the regular low level flights carrying out geological surveys searching for diamonds. Although mining hasn’t started in the reserve yet, dozens of new concessions have been sold throughout Botswana, not least in the Reserve itself where there were only a few before the latest eviction of Bushmen. But after a further thousand or so were removed there was a sharp rise in the number of concessions sold to diamond mining giants like BHP Billiton and De Beers.”