Dinny reflects a deep pride in her community: "Yes, our village, Mababe, is a Bushman village. We number about 300 and nearly all of the people working here in the camp are from the village." She emphasizes the connection of her village to the larger heritage of the Bushmen, highlighting their long-standing relationship with the land and their status as original hunter-gatherers in Botswana.
Addressing the complexities of modern challenges, the article states, "This may be somewhat surprising as Botswana, Africa's longest-lasting democracy, with its reputation of a laidback population of smiley happy people, impresses in so many ways. But with diamond mining being Botswana's principal industry, the discovery of a multi-billion-dollar deposit in the San's Kalahari heartland straddling the Botswana-Namibia border, was never likely to play well, as an unresolved decades-long dispute reaffirms."
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