Reserve land (reserves)

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Colonially established spaces where colonised people were crowded to enable the colonialists to occupy land or to control the colonised. These were massive prisons of dispossession. When the colonists settled, these reserves became permanent. The reserves have inadequate land for each household to practice economic, social and spiritual activities. Land reforms seek to move people from reserves back to the lands that were forcibly dispossessed.

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