Onkemetse 'Bhibo' Maruping-Kgari With support from Anthropos Africa, more than fifty San leaders and community representatives from across Botswana gathered in Ghanzi for the National San Dialogue on Indigenous Rights Reform . It was convened by the Botswana Khwedam Council and organised by Bhibo Maruping, founder of the Ghanzi's Family Support Group Over two days of closed deliberations, leaders discussed how San communities wish to engage with government during the countr

Smith Moeti (Red T-shirt) consulting with the community at Molapo in the CKGR. Between 1994 and 2006, the 3000-strong indigenous hunting and gathering G/wi and G//ana San population was forcibly relocated from Botswana’s 52,800km Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Government argued that their presence in the CKGR was incompatible with the area’s conservation status; that the San’s way of life was primitive and that  they needed to be relocated to state settlements in order to b

In October 2025, at the direction of President Duma Boko, Anthropos and the Minister of Justice, Nelson Ramaotwana signed an Memorandum of Understanding on the basis of which Anthropos will provide strategic, technical and financial support to assist Government to develop and operationalise its ambitious indigenous rights refrom program. This includes undertaking evidence-based research and comparative policy analysis, benchmarking Botswana’s policies against international st