Heritage dispute engulfs Cape Town site to house Amazon’s new African HQ
Opponents vow to continue their fight against the multibillion-rand development approved by mayor Dan Plato
03 June 2021 - 14:56
For the Khoi and San — SA'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. And, 150 years later, it was where Dutch settlers launched a campaign of land dispossession...
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