I haven’t seen information about mysterious disease that’s killing displaced Bushmen in Botswana in the mass media. This article comes from Survival International (http://www.survival-international.org/), an organization that works with indigenous peoples all over the world. The mysterious disease comes in the text of the San Bushmen being expelled by the Botswanan government from their ancestral lands at the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The government claims it’s for their own good and to protect the natural resources at the Game Reserve, but they have awarded diamond mining concessions in the reserve to large diamond companies, including De Beers.
BOTSWANA: Mystery disease killing evicted Bushmen 22 Mar 2006
At least fifteen Bushmen have died suddenly of unknown causes this year in New Xade resettlement camp and three remain in a critical condition. The deaths come as British Baroness Jenny Tonge and other peers insist in the House of Lords that the evictions have benefitted the Bushmen.
Gaseitsiwe Gaorapelwe died very suddenly after spots appeared all over his body. After being tortured by wildlife guards in 2000 for hunting, he said to a Survival researcher,