They have suffered 350 years of shame and degradation, but, at last, the descendants of the first people to meet southern Africa's white settlers may be able to return to the land that was once theirs. Later this month, the South African government is set to announce a multi-billion rand compensation deal and the return of land to the nomadic Khoekhoen, the South African courts have deemed was stolen under racist mineral-rights laws in the 1920s.