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Monday, 4 February, 2002, 16:48 GMT
In pictures: End of a way of life
The authorities in Botswana want the traditional people of the central Kalahari - the San - to leave their ancestral lands for camps hundreds of miles away
![]() The San have lived in this environment for 30,000 years
![]() NGOs say the forced relocation breaches their human rights
![]() The government says providing water and food costs too much
![]() The area is also a wildlife reserve and a mining area
![]() Water deliveries from the main borehole to settlements have stopped
![]() The pump and water tanks are due to be removed
![]() Without water the San will have to move hundreds of miles away
![]() A way of life will be gone forever
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