A worker pulling banana bunches on a conveyer system to the packhouse owned by Tomahawk and Matsamo Community Project Association in the Kaalrug area south-east of Malelane. South Africa’s land reform was thrust into the limelight in February when Trump falsely accused Pretoria of seizing white-owned land and offered refugee resettlement and possibly a path to US citizenship to South African farmers. — AFP
HECTARE upon hectare of luxuriant orchards cover the land from which Bernard Shabangu’s ancestors were once brutally evicted by South Africa’s apartheid government.
Thousands of families lived on these green hills near the Kruger National Park, 400km east of Johannesburg, until the early 1900s when colonial and subsequent apartheid regimes eroded the rights of black South Africans to own land.
