Reclaiming the Promised Land - South Africa

September 2003
A small South African community is taking on the might of the state to demand the return of their land expropriated during apartheid.

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[Rico8458]

History shows that Zulu was not there in 1650. they migrated southbound same time boers trek northeast bound. that land never belong to zulu. the indiginous tribes there when dutch landed were small and of no significance.

[Titoscudd]

@Rico8458

What "history" shows you that? You must mean "history" as narrated by settlers, huh? LOL!! You arrive where you NEVER been before, and start dictating the "history" of the place to the indigenes whom you met there? LOL!! That a joke right? Good one though. It might tickle with fools and ignoramouses, but, it won't work with Africans. At least, NEVER AGAIN.

[MrJohnjohn46]

Zululand was only Natal you idiots! Not the whole SA, so do not flatter yourself..

[eita0da]

@Rico8458, that's called perveted history. Black people have occupied the South African land long before the white man set their feet here. It's all part of their plan to make South Africa look like a no-man's land. You should read about the Portugueese explorer called Bartolomeu Dias who sailed around Africa in 1488 and his encounter with the Zulus and Mpondos(one of the Xhosa tribes). Evidence is there that black people have occupied the land centuries before the white man came.

[Rico8458]

good counter point.

[Hendrik44987]

@Rico8458 But even if there were no people present in this specific area of the African continent (theoretically speking) - it doesn't give some european religious extremists, criminals, sailors and outcasts the right to settle in a land thats thousands of miles away from their original home and exploit their neighbors! most Europeans that settled in Africa did it because they could and because they had no feeling of justice and responsibility towards other humans!

[Hendrik44987]

@Rico8458 Straight out the history book of the apartheids regime, but in fact not appropriate! It's commonly acknowledged by researchers in the fields of african studies, area studies, history and cultural anthropology (people who research the history of Africa professionally and without ideological preconcepts) that bantu-speakers aswell as khoian groups (the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa) have been living in different areas allover of what today is called "Republic of South Africa" !

[Rico8458]

be objective. aside from the horror and evils, a people who settle a land for 400 years own it? just like the bantu own it.

[jasongotti1992]

@omoibile The same thing these white folks did to the Native American.....It's just a matter of time before they try to oppress and take over another Country....God will have his/her judgment on them.

[blkpanther08]

@Gnubnub I'm beginning to think you must be lonely and in need of a pen pal to correspond with. If that's what you would like to do, be man/woman enough and say so and not keep writing stupid things to elicit a response. Your writing is fairly intelligent, which alludes to someone maybe well read and researched. Keep writing, it gives me great joy in educating the masses, to dispell myths europeans commonly have about the intelligence of blacks. We BLACKS are original teachers of civilization

[blkpanther08]

@Gnubnub slaughter of these animals. Picking up low level drup dealers, is not going to stem the flow of drugs coming into the hood. You have to cut it off from the top to stop the flow. Whites set the prices for commodities. I dont see a black face @Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Tiffany, Hermes, etc selling and dictating the prices for these items. Without demand these animals would not be killed. Who better to get to do your dirty work than someone working to collect pennies to feed their family...