Dates for the land claims court's restitution hearing between the Richtersveld community, state-owned diamond mining firm Alexkor and the government had been set for the three weeks between May 3 and May 21, the community's legal representative says. In October, the constitutional court ruled that the Richtersveld community had a valid claim to the surface and mineral rights of most of the diamond-rich west coast strip along the Orange River from Port Nolloth to Alexander Bay, from which it had been forcibly removed in the 1920s.