Heritage dispute engulfs site chosen for Amazon’s new African HQ Reuters 1 hour ago By Wendell Roelf
By Wendell Roelf
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - For the Khoi and San - South Africa s first inhabitants - a verdant patch of land in Cape Town embodies victory and tragedy.
The two communities drove back cattle-raiding Portuguese soldiers there in 1510. But, a century and a half later, it was where Dutch settlers launched a campaign of land dispossession.
Today it is again the scene of another conflict, this time over a development where construction is due to begin this month and which will eventually be home to a new 70,000-square metre Africa headquarters for U.S. retail giant Amazon.
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