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12/23/2004:

"Ghost of apartheid returns to farmlands"

Some white farmers admit switch to game-reserve tourism is pretext to get rid of black workers

A hunting boom driven by wealthy tourists is pushing black South Africans off the land to make way for game, generating anger that, a decade after apartheid, whites still own most of the countryside. Hundreds of commercial farms have evicted their labourers and converted into game parks, turning swaths of arable land into fenced wilderness for trophy animals such as lions and antelopes.

Full Article : guardian.co.uk