The Khwe community living in Bwabwata National Park is frustrated with the government for taking so long to recognise its traditional leadership.

The community has been trying for the past 26 years to have its leadership recognised.

 
It's an issue that has been dragging on for more than two decades.

The Khwe say the lack of traditional representation means they have lost their dignity on top of having already lost their ancestral land.

Statelessness due to a lack of national identity documents is said to be worsening poverty among the Khwe community living in the Bwabwata National Park in Kavango East's Mukwe Constituency.

The Village Development Committee (VDC) at Omega One Settlement says many Khwedum-speaking people there have no national documents.

Omega One has the largest concentration of the Khwe community inhabiting the formally Western Caprivi area.