'Put us back in the picture'

It's the land sale of the decade - a 46ha chunk of coastal real estate just outside the coastal holiday town of Hermanus, potentially worth hundreds of millions of rands. The only trouble is that the neighbours - all 30000 of them - want in on the deal.Not only do the residents of Zwelihle township claim the land, known as Schulphoek, as their own, they say it is their only access to the sea.