The Missing Millions

This is a story about the landlessness and poverty that continue to plague working-class black people in South Africa, and the plan devised by four gentlemen to overcome this. The title suggests a heist, but it should be read against the background of the biggest land grab to have occurred in our country’s history: the Natives Land Act of 1913.

Nearly a century later, in 2018, Themba Boqwana, Thando Wontoti, Buntu Nonkelela and Sande Dotyeni, participated in what media termed “the largest la...