SOUTH AFRICA: ONE MAN'S ATTEMPTS TO SAVE THE KALAHARI BUSHMEN FROM EXTINCTION.

Record ID: 860061

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: ONE MAN'S ATTEMPTS TO SAVE THE KALAHARI BUSHMEN FROM EXTINCTION.
  • Date: 30th July 1987
  • Summary: KALAHARI DESERT, SOUTH AFRICA JULY 27, 1987 (REUTERS - GEOFF SHILTON) GVs & SV Utility crossing desert. (2 SHOTS) 0.11 GVs ZOOM INTO Lokkie Henning speaking to contact with information on location of bushmen. 0.21 MCU PULL BACK TO SV Smoking pipe. 0.29 MCU PAN Man looking on as utility drives off. 0.31 GV Utility carrying Lokkie Henning and bushmen drives off. 0.36 GV Utility driving through desert. 0.44 GV PAN & ZOOM IN TO Reunion of bushmen at Kalahari camo. 1.03 MCU Henning speaking. (English SOT) TRANSCRIPT: HENNING: (SEQ 8): "We are working with humans. Lots of funds has been raised internationally to save the white rhino and extinct species of game. Why are we having this battle to, to, to save human beings from complete extinction."1.21 ( ** PICTURE DISTURBANCE ON THIS SEQUENCE **) GV ZOOM INTO CU Bushmen dancing round fire at night. 1.33 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th August 1987 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa, South Africa
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  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: People,Lifestyle
  • Reuters ID: LVA35P87WI6J1XH7VOEJPMJL5FUP
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  • Story Text: Lokkie Henning, a self-appointed saviour of the Kalahari Desert tribe has for the past two years been trying to locate bushmen who wish to rejoin their tribe and resume their traditional way of life. The tiny bushmen, who are among the earliest known inhabitants of Africa, used to live by hunting and gathering roots but waves of conquering black tribes and white settlers have seen their numbers desimated and their traditional hunting grounds given over to farmland. Unable to find a place in the modern world the remaining bushmen scattered throughout southern Africa and to one of the few places where they have their own land. Bushmanland, an era of arid bush country on the fringes of the Kalahari Desert in northeastern Namibia. On his recent trip, Henning, a bushman tribal elder, managed to locate four members of the tribe. One had been working for a local farmer after an arduous journey through some of the harshest terrain in the world Henning managed to persuade the farmer to let the bushman return to his people. Henning also heard about 22 other tribesman living wild in the desert. Henning is desperate for funds to complete his work and hopes one day to be able to raise enough money to buy a large farm which will be stocked with wild game so that the bushmen may return to their traditional ways. If an estimated quarter of a million United STATES (US) dollars is not raised then he believes the bushmen will join other members of Africa's unique tribes and wild game which have disappeared from the face of the land.
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