This is the final article in a series on Khoi-San identity, published during Heritage Month.

See Part 1 here; See Part 2 here

"Look, Tony! They've put up a wall - it's beautiful," my grandmother says, dragging her words to match the slow pace of the car as we pass by our old family home near Sophiatown, Johannesburg.

I have never seen the inside of this house; in fact, my father wasn't even born when the apartheid government moved my family to a nearby "coloured" township. But, we have driven past on countless occasion; each time, my grandmother marveling at every renovation and paint job, as if its current owners were simply minding it for her.

The mass dispossession of land experienced by my community during the implementation of the Group Areas Act in 1959 - which saw the formalisation of racially segregated ghettos in South Africa...