Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti says it will be an injustice to exclude the descendants of Khoisan communities from benefiting from restitution programmes. Nkwinti was addressing over 2000 people at the handover of farmland to the community of Mamre in the Western Cape.

Minister Nkwinti told the community of Mamre that the handing over of communal land and the transformation of the Cape Town Castle into a healing centre for the Khoisan descendants is just the beginning of full recognition of the Khoi and San descendants.

“Unless the people who suffered, who constituted the first line of defence against colonialism the Khoi and the San, unless their spirits are restful where they are, if they are not restful our country will never be at peace.”

Nkwinti handed over the first communal farm land to the coloured community of Mamre under the Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act.
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