1.   In Africa, which has also had its share of border disputes, boundaries were drawn arbitrarily by colonial powers and often slice right through traditional tribal homelands.

2.   The Kurds are an ancient Middle Eastern people whose traditional homeland lies in what is now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and adjacent portions of Iran and Syria.

3.   Political violence and crime have increased in recent weeks in KwaZulu-Natal province, which includes Durban and the traditional Zulu homeland.

4.   Rebels among the Naga tribespeople, spread across the states of Nagaland and Manipur, claim that the Kuki tribespeople have encroached on their traditional homelands.

5.   Almost three decades ago, Jackson translated the concerns of her Sahtu tribal elders at government hearings on whether to build a natural gas pipeline through their traditional homeland.

6.   Back then, the ANC-linked United Democratic Front was challenging Inkatha for control of the township in the traditional Zulu homeland.

7.   But Inkatha, which fears losing power to the ANC in its stronghold of the traditional Zulu homeland, has said it will abide by the new constitution.

8.   Clashes with the ANC erupted over supremacy in traditional Zulu homeland and spread to black townships around Johannesburg, where Zulu migrant workers became party warriors against township residents.

9.   Fighting between the ANC and Inkatha has killed thousands of blacks in the past decade in the traditional Zulu homeland.

10.   Fierce fighting between the groups in the traditional Zulu homeland killed thousands of blacks in previous years.