Alexkor Limited v. The Richtersveld Community (2003) South Africa On 14 October 2003, the Constitutional Court of South Africa decided that the Nama people who had been dispossessed of their diamond-rich land in the 1920s had exclusive rights to their traditional territories and its resources. The Court found that a change in sovereignty does not destroy pre-existing property rights and that the Nama people had unlawfully been dispossessed of their lands based on racial discrimination. Source: Agreements, treaties and negotiated settlements project (2007)
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