South Africa: They Took Away Our House, They Took Away Our Neighbourhood, They Took Away Our Lives

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Land expropriation without compensation has sparked intense debate throughout the country, in most instances splitting South Africans on racial lines. My family -- and my wife's family -- were victims of expropriation too: property expropriation during the high noon of apartheid. Here is my story...

In the 1960s, in Myburgh Road, Diep River, in the southern suburbs of Cape Town, the Group Areas Act hung and hovered, swinging this way and that, teasing the area's largely working-class community into a false sense of security.

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