My Experience Of Land Grabs And Land Claims

This post is not so much about the politics of it as my personal experience of land grabs and land claims:

• At the end of World War II, the Soviets seized a valuable property from my family, without compensation. Two generations later, we were compensated.
• I used the money I received from the Soviets to buy a property in South Africa. This was seized in an invasion. I got half the money back, and used it for my education.
• Wife E and her clan have been involved in a land claim for years. But it seems to be a complete muddle. Nobody can finish it.
• Other members of E's clan were granted land in the Eastern Cape, of a White farmer. But the project failed, because the state was unable to protect the land. The tractor (the bits of it that are left) still stand there.

OBSERVATION:  My own surname "Scarborough" is pure Viking. The Vikings of course grabbed land -- and massacred the people. That wasn't the end of it, though. The Vikings themselves were massacred in revenge. For example, St. Brice's Day Massacre.