In March, South Africa’s High Court blocked U.S. tech giant Amazon from erecting its Africa headquarters on the land of the local Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin First Nation. The decision is a major victory over Amazon, a multinational corporation that has gained notoriety for everything from union-busting to high numbers of injuries in its warehouses. The proposed offices would have occupied the confluence of two rivers, near grazing lands that host traditional spiritual ceremonies and where Indigenous Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin people fought the first European invaders over 200 years ago.
— source yesmagazine.org | May 25, 2022