Giving Back the Land; Black S. Africans Want What Was Seized

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 10, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Whites now pay rent to blacks, and for Mirriam Gamede it is a good feeling indeed. It is not about race, nor is it revenge. For Gamede, it is justice: a wrong turned right, at last.

For more than a century, the fertile farmland in the coastal region of the Tsitsikama forest near Port Elizabeth was the lifeblood of Gamede's tribe. The Mfengu people owned their land and on it they grew corn, grazed cattle and buried their dead - until 17 years ago, when soldiers descended and forced the Mfengu out at gunpoint. Carrying out an act of parliament, the soldiers herded Gamede, her husband, her ...

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