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Land claim in South Africa (Whose land is RSA land?)

Kgalagadishe Nicholas Mashabela — Mon, 07 May 2018 11:06:46 +0000

A lesson learned too often was that of Jan Van Riebeeck‟s arrival in South Africa in 1652. It was also infused into our minds at the early years in school, that the Khoisan under the leadership of great Authumato met the arrival of the Europeans at the cape, first with hospitality and later with hostility and wars over the right of [...]

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Compensating white farmers in Zimbabwe is a sell-out of the Chimurenga

Bruce Magwenzi — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:13:28 +0000

The land question has consistently stayed at the center of Zimbabwe’s political, economic and social development. It remains the root of the political tension between Zimbabwe and the former colonial power, Britain. The advent of European settler occupation in Zimbabwe was the genesis of the dispossession of black people from their land. The period of [...]

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