Kalahari San Water Appeal Judgement - Botswana High Court

Publisher:: Survival International
Publication Date:: 27 January 2011
Tags:: Botswana, Land and Rural Issues, Human Rights, Water and Sanitation, Environment

Full High Court ruling that has found that:

    - the San have the right to use their old borehole, which the government had banned them from using
    - the San have the right to sink new boreholes
    - the government’s conduct towards the San amounted to ‘degrading treatment’.
    - the government must pay the San costs in bringing the appeal.

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