[Mb-civic] The Tug of Deep Roots

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The Tug of Deep Roots 
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The Bushmen's legal battle with Botswana over their ouster from a Kalahari Desert reserve is a fight for the only life they have known.

By Robyn Dixon
Times Staff Writer

January 3 2005

METSIAMANONG, Botswana — When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as if he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back. 

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