On the plains of SA’s Western Cape, a tiny town has become an unlikely contender in SA’s drive for more equitable land rights.

Nearly 200 years ago, German missionaries set up a mission station in what would later be named Elim to provide a home for freed slaves and indigenous Khoi people who would become their first converts...

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