![]() Tomose sleeps on a twin mattress and keeps his clothes in a cardboard box from a washing machine. It's one room with corrugated metal sheets nailed to a thin wooden frame. Tomose used to live in Kayamandi Township down the hill, but there was no room for his expanding family, so he built a shack on land just outside the township.ĬHESLOW: He unlocks the padlock to the front door. And like more than a quarter of South Africans, he's unemployed. NPR's Daniella Cheslow reports that the recent murder of a winemaker at the center of a land dispute illustrates how this issue is boiling over.ĭANIELLA CHESLOW, BYLINE: Stellenbosch, the heart of Cape wine country, along the nation's coastal southwest - here, against craggy mountains and a vista of vines, I ride up a rutted dirt path.ĪYANDA TOMOSE: Little rough entrance for small carsĬHESLOW: Ayanda Tomose drives. Since the end of apartheid 25 years ago, the South African government has promised to chip away at the white ownership of much of the country's farmland. ![]()
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