entrenched white privilege. One of the key mechanisms for this entrenchment is the constitution, which guarantees protection of private property as a fundamental human right. But this protection is not for all. It excludes those whose lands were appropriated after the passage of the 1913 Land Act, which, of course, incorporates those dispossessed after the introduction of apartheid in 1948. A statute in the legal code provides for the restoration of lost land to the majority population, but because this is extraconstitutional law, it usually loses out to constitutional protections when native
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