Gen X Straddles the Past and Future in South Africa’s Land Debate

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Gen X Straddles the Past and Future in South Africa’s Land Debate

Franelyn Rossouw was 21 when she moved onto the Goedgedacht farm outside Delmas, in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, where she would spend the next three decades of her life. A white South African, she married her childhood sweetheart, Francois Hoffman, and together they built a life raising four children, tending the land and dreaming of the future. But one day, their future shattered. After 28 years of marriage, Hoffman walked into the rows…