Thursday’s decision by the high court in Pretoria is historic. : Xolobeni, along the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast, has limited running water, clinics and schools. The answer, for some, lay in investment in the form of an Australian mining company, Transworld Energy and Mineral Resources, that wanted to exploit 2 867 hectares of land. What followed was a 15-year battle, encompassing intimidation, beatings and assassinations, and that pitted neighbour against neighbour.