The core of their battle is to reclaim their identity, land, and language.
Posts tagged as “land”
The promise of benefiting from the mineral wealth beneath the soil of their land remains a dangerous toil of dicing with death for Limpopo's zama zamas... Lucas Ledwaba documented their daily toil
To the uninformed the great hill at Magoro may just be an ordinary part of the landscape but to the original people of this area it’s a holy site that connects them to the spiritual world.
Communal Property Association (CPA) representatives fed up with what they say is lack of support from government have resolved to form an independent union to tackle issues they claim are leading to the collapse of farming projects run by land claimant communities.
‘Crossing the border illegally into South Africa was like a Sunday afternoon stroll for Shaolin Masache. A customs official at the Beit Bridge border post arranged for Masache to get a gate pass after accepting a bribe of R100, which he shared with a police officer on duty at the border post. Masache, 28, walked into South Africa without a passport…He arrived in the farming town of Waterpoort in the Northern Province two days later after a punishing 90km walk…
WHEN the women of Motloulela realised the despair caused by unemployment in their village – they decided to do something.