For almost two decades, 104-year-old Zabalaza Mshengu waited to know whether his right to a piece of land he grew up and lived on had been settled. But it was a dream that he would never see being realised. Mshengu died on Monday.
The centenarian was born on a farm in Ashburton, just outside Pietermaritzburg. His father, a labour tenant, worked on the farm in return for the right to live on the land. Mshengu also grew up to work on the land under the same conditions.
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