TENSION between traditional hunter-gather communities from former Bushmanland and cattle farmers is expected to increase following the declaration of a large area of land as a conservancy.
The !Kung, a people constituting one of the San language groups, last month succeeded in having their land proclaimed a protected conservation area, which added muscle to their prospects of repelling powerful cattle farmers who occupy the land with their livestock. For more than a decade the farmers have driven their cattle into the sprawling and sparsely populated Tsumkwe constituency, intensifying the fight for survival affecting human and be
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