Had the House of Lords adopted an amendment proposed by Sir Douglas Glover when it debated the Botswana Independence Bill on July 28, 1966, Attorney Duma Boko and Gordon Bennett, a British lawyer, would probably never have crossed paths at the turn of the century. The house didn’t and the two lawyers crossed paths when the government forcibly removed (‘relocated’) Khwe communities living in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve. The latter is an area of desert the size of Belgium. In response to this development, Survival International, a London-based pressure group, interceded on the Khwe engaged the services of Bennett. Needing the services of someone more familiar with Botswana law, Bennett teamed up with Boko (then a law lecturer at the University of Botswana) to challenge the government’s decision through the High Court.
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