More than 7000 people gathered in rural Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, to celebrate the “Vulamasango Singene” campaign, which aims to secure compensation for victims of betterment dispossession in the province. The stadium in Cofimvaba was filled with people from 85 villages in the western part of the former Transkei, wearing yellow t-shirts with the campaign slogan: Vulamasango Singene (open the doors, we go in). Music and dance groups were performing in front of the excited crowd, who also listened to speak-outs from people whose land was taken away when the betterment policy of the former apartheid government was implemented from the 1930´s and onwards. Nomkhita Davidson spoke about the day when her family was forcibly removed in the 1960s. “They burned our houses and chased us with guns. We ran away without our possessions. A woman had to give birth to her child in the mountains. Gun shots were fired all around us. It was a terrible day”, she said.