An Assessment of the Status of the San in Botswana

Download or read book An Assessment of the Status of the San in Botswana written by Lin Good Ken Mazonde Isaac Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the 22nd Session of the ACP-EU Joint Assembly held in Widhoek, Namibia, in March 1996, a resolution was passed recognissing the special difficulties encounterd in integrating hunting and gathering peoples in agricultural industrial states, amd noting the lack of accurate overall information on the present condition and prospects of San. The European Commission was consequently requested to undertake a comprehensive study of the San people in the light of international conventions. To this end a Series of studies was conducted among the San population throughout the southern African region over the period 1999-2000 as part of a project Titled Regional Assessment of the Status of the San in southern Africa. This publication is one of five reports produced under the project.