Comments on: Diamonds discovered in the Kalahari – Botswana to evict last remaining bushmen https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/09/diamonds-discovered-in-the-kalahari-botswana-to-evict-last-remaining-bushmen/ UX Designer + Full-Stack Dev Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Quiddity https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/09/diamonds-discovered-in-the-kalahari-botswana-to-evict-last-remaining-bushmen/#comment-5972 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:46:45 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/archives/2005/09/13/diamonds-discovered-in-the-kalahari-botswana-to-evict-last-remaining-bushmen/#comment-5972 It’s an unsettling reality that poor and marginalised of any society are abused and neglected by those with more wealth and status. It is probable that the wealth gleaned from the natural resources of this country will benefit neither the urban dwellers nor the bushmen. Instead it will line the pockets of those who will then look for more ways to turn botswana into gold – no doubt at the continuing expense of its citizens.

Nice fact about the clicks, Livvy, those languages which have non-pulmonic consonants in them are becoming increasingly endangered.

]]> By: nathan https://yummy-wakame.com/weblog/2005/09/diamonds-discovered-in-the-kalahari-botswana-to-evict-last-remaining-bushmen/#comment-5971 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:57:58 +0000 http://www.yummy-wakame.com/archives/2005/09/13/diamonds-discovered-in-the-kalahari-botswana-to-evict-last-remaining-bushmen/#comment-5971 It’s interesting to note that this country is thought of as a success story, presumably in its development out of 3rd World status…

So what is the choice here, then? If a country is able to pull itself out of poverty but can do so only by forsaking the old ways of its aboriginal people, then is that the “right” thing to do instead of watching as its civilized men and women contract AIDs, live in squalor, and die away?

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