In March 1999, at a ceremony in the Kalahari desert, 300 of the world's remaining Bushmen were granted 125,000 acres of their own land for the first time by the South African Government in the person of Thabo Mbeki, then Vice President. Twenty-five years earlier, they'd been evicted from the Kalahari by the previous, apartheid government of South Africa who said they were 'too westernized' to cohabit with the wild animals in the National Park. Forced to live in shanty conditions on a patch of land just outside the Park, their eviction was just one more chapter in a genocide that had gone on for generations. As South Africa's respected broadsheet, Weekly Mail & Guardian, summed it up, the Bushmen's story is "the most brutal, yet ignored, shame in this country's history."