
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 by the South African Government. 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. Regopstaan Kruiper was an elder in the Khomani clan who had a vision that his people would get their land back and began the fight to regain control of their ancestral birthright. When Regopstaan died in 1995, his son Dawid took over the leadership of the clan. Regopstaan's Dream follows the story of Dawid Kruiper's campaign to make his father’s dream come true. For more information on this episode, please visit the Life site.