When capitalism clashes with Indigenous rights
The HinduThe River Club development was under construction on sacred land, the spiritual home to the Khoi and San ethnic groups — the earliest inhabitants of southern Africa. "If they are relocated, it's to worse land," Rose said, "and they are worse off than before." Call for recognition The only thing Indigenous peoples would ask for, Rose said, is for their rights to the land where the development is taking place be recognized and that they are given proper consideration. Indigenous and corporate collaboration "Governments, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, must first recognize that Indigenous peoples live on the land and also have traditional ownership of that land," Rose said. "That many governments don't want to recognize these people is a problem in itself," Rose said, adding that recognition means giving them the right to the land.
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