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🗓️ 4 July 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Give back the Land is the cry from millions of black and brown South African farm workers who have been dispossessed of their land for centuries. They expected to gain an equal share in the wealth of the land when Nelson Mandela was elected in 1994. That has not happened. And their patience is running out, leading to fears of a racial conflagration that the country cannot afford. A white land owner, together with the workers on the farm he inherited, have embarked on a bold project to share ownership of the land they all love and live on.
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0:00.0 | One farm in particular used to put people in oil drums and after they've been dumped in oil drums beat them up with some |
0:10.0 | some bock which are. A whip basically. |
0:13.8 | Nico Janssen, farm manager. |
0:16.8 | The oldest house on the farm dates from before 1690 in the 1680s census there were already two settlers here to |
0:25.2 | European hunters hunting in our river for hippopotamie and elephants of which of |
0:32.4 | course there are none left. |
0:33.7 | Mark Solms, farm owner. |
0:37.0 | I told him I don't trust white people at all. |
0:39.7 | So you know this, in this room, what you have to remember is that this house was built by slaves. |
0:45.2 | This is the ship that brought my ancestors here. |
0:48.2 | Mark is a sixth generation South African who began investing in this farm 17 years ago. |
0:54.0 | There was this ship, the Arab, which I knew my ancestors that come on the Arab. |
0:58.0 | I thought the Arab is in terms that sank in Table Bay. |
1:02.0 | Nico comes from a long line of farm and domestic laborers in the Cape Winelands. |
1:07.0 | People have to work from sunrise to sunset. |
1:10.0 | And if you are a wife and a woman, how would you feel if your family could only start eating 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock in the evening because you have to stop |
1:19.8 | prepared food for them? |
1:21.8 | So it's underneath the city of Cape Town is the ship that brought my ancestors here. |
1:26.4 | This valley which is now called Frans Hook, French Quarter was called Ulyphants Hook, Elephants Quarter. |
1:32.1 | So sad. |
1:33.0 | Everything about South Africa is just excruciatingly painful. |
1:37.0 | In layers upon layers. |
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