Trees line the banks of the historically significant Liesbeek River, close to the site of a controversial development which includes a new Africa headquarters for U.S. retail giant Amazon, in Cape Town, South Africa, May 23, 2021. Picture taken May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - For the Khoi and San - South Africa's first inhabitants - a verdant patch of land in Cape Town embodies victory and tragedy.
The two communities drove back cattle-raiding Portuguese soldiers there in 1510. But, a century and a half later, it was where Dutch settlers launched a campaign of land dispossession.
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