BAKOLOBENG TRIBE DANCE DURING THEIR RETURNED OF THE LAND, 2001-07-02 (photo)

Members of South Africa's Bakolobeng Ba Ga Ramodiana tribe dance after getting their ancestral land back July 1,2001. They face the challenge of rebuilding their community on ancestral lands stolen from them 25 years ago and now handed back with government support. The 1,000 families of the tribe were uprooted when the white minority government decided their land, in farming country some 240 km (150 miles) west of Johannesburg, was in an area designated for white use only and ordered their eviction. Land Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza told Reuters after the ceremony that breaking the law and invading land would be prevented."This is not Zimbabwe," she said. JN/