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    "transcript":"\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EDESTINATION: South Africa, San People\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESOUNDBITE:\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E“This is not really our land…(SYNC) There’s our land in the park…(V/O) That’s our land.”\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EEighty\u002Dtwo year old Feke Kuiper and her sisters Kees and Katrine were born in the Kalahari in southwest Africa.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThey’re Khomani San, part of a group of people who have been living in this region for perhaps thousands of years.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAnd they want to go home.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESOUNDBITE:\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E“When we were consulted…(SYNC)...we asked for our land back.”\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe sisters and their people were driven off their land after South Africa established the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in the 1930’s.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EWitdraai – their home – fell within its borders…\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESome of their people were persecuted…\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EOthers exterminated…\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe animals of the Kalahari flourished…\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe San did not.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESOUNDBITE:\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E“A mob burnt down our homes…My father was already lying dead at Witdraai. Then we, the Bushmen, were scattered as we are now. Living apart.”\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EIn 2002 the Khomani San settled an historic land claim.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ENow, after sixty years in exile, Feke, Kees and Katrine, are going home.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESOUNDBITE:\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E“Now we are coming home, we dance for joy as we walk.”\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESOUNDUP:\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E“Police station! This is Witdraai. My father had this land.”\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe sisters’ return heralds the start of a new conservation movement – one that recognizes the rights of displaced people to have a say in how Africa’s parks are run.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EHuge conservation zones are in the works for southern Africa.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESix new mega parks known as ‘Peace Parks’ will cross national borders.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAlready open, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park has merged the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park with a neighboring park in Botswana.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAt the same time, people like Feke and her sisters can finally go home.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAlthough their community still faces daunting challenges.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThey will share their traditional knowledge with the next generation…\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EWith the hope that they can help pull the San way of life back from the verge of extinction\u003C/p\u003E",

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