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Amazon Africa HQ site facing indigenous backlash


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A legal battle is looming over plans to build Amazon s multi-million-dollar African headquarters on land cherished by South Africa s indigenous Khoi San people.
Amazon is setting up its African HQ in Cape Town a project with the promise of thousands of jobs in a country where unemployment is cripplingly high.
City authorities last month approved the construction of a nine-storey business and residential complex on a greenfield site that will be anchored by Amazon.
Its offices will provide total floor space of 70,000 square metres (7.5 million feet) equivalent to almost 10 football pitches.
But some of the country s first inhabitants, the Khoi Khoi and San whose presence in the southern tip of the continent has been dated by archaeologists to thousands of years   say the project desecrates ancestral land. ....

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