A top British lawyer will not make it to court in Botswana, where he is due to appear for a community of Bushmen who were evicted from a national park.
Gordon Bennett was placed on a "visa list" by Botswana on June 24, six days after he won a case that banned the government from evicting Ranyane Bushmen from an area proposed to become a "wildlife corridor" between the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the south of the country.
In May the government gave the Ranyane Bushmen four days' notice of their eviction and then allegedly sent police to intimidate the community. The community went to court to get a temporary interdict against their removal. Bennett won the case against their eviction last month.
The Bushmen will return to court for the third time next Monday to fight for free access to their ancestral land.
Though British citizens don't need a visa to enter Botswana, Bennett was placed on a "visa list" of people who do need to apply fora visa.
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