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Article: THOUSANDS STILL WAITING FOR RETURN OF SEIZED LAND.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2004
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Byline: ELLIOTT SYLVESTER Associated Press
LEKKERSING, South Africa -- For 80 years, Elias Links dreamed of returning to the grasslands where he herded sheep and goats as a boy.
When a landmark court case restored his Nama people's rights to the diamond-rich tracts snatched by South Africa's former white rulers, it was already too late for the man everyone knew as Oupa, grandfather. Links died just weeks after the ruling at 93, without setting foot on his ancestral land.
A decade after apartheid's end, tens of thousands of black South Africans are still waiting for compensation or restoration of property seized under racist laws that claimed 80 ...