As occupations gather pace, S. African landowners fear for their property
KIM HARRISBERG ON an abandoned private farm south of Johannesburg, the sound of hammers bashing nails into corrugated iron, brooms sweeping away the dust and a faint chatter of voices can be heard on a nearby road. It is the sound of dozens of shacks being hastily built in the Walkerville town of the Midvaal, a semi-rural farming area in South Africa, where growing demand for land and housing is fueling a wave of similar occupations. "We're here to build ourselves a new home and a new life," said Tantaswa, 37, who did not want her real name used for…