Heritage land dispute over Amazon's new Africa HQ goes to court

FILE PHOTO: Trees line the banks of the historically significant Liesbeek River, close to the site of a development which includes a new Africa headquarters for Amazon, in Cape Town, South Africa, May 23, 2021. Picture taken May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Groups representing the descendants of South Africa's earliest inhabitants, the Khoi and San, went to court on Wednesday to try to halt construction of Amazon's new 70,000-square metre Africa headquarters on land they regard as sacred.

The culturally-intertwined San and Khoi were the first inhabitants of South Africa. The former lived as hunter gatherers for tens of thousands of years, and the latter joined them as pastoralists more than 2,000 years ago.