![]() "I remember children screaming and crying and my parents having to throw our belongings into a truck," said Canthitoo from his home in Bluff - the neighbourhood his family was forced to leave and where Canthitoo later returned to buy a house. Now 67, Canthitoo said his memories of the eviction forever called to mind his great-grandmother's kidnapping by slave traders in Mozambique - and her struggle to build a new life in South Africa's eastern coastal city of Durban. ![]() Six decades on, his community is reviving its fight to get back the confiscated land.Ĭanthitoo is one of thousands of descendants of freed northern Mozambican slaves - known as the Makua people - brought to South Africa by the British in the 1870s after they intercepted illegal slave ships en route to Zanzibar. Apartheid land grabs drove Makua families from their homesĮlders fight for 'full victory' after land claim winīureaucracy, disagreements keep Makua from their propertyĭURBAN - Abey Canthitoo was eight when tractors roared in to demolish his home and turn his neighbourhood into a white-only area during South Africa's apartheid regime.
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