South Africa's ambitious land reform and restitution programs, launched by Nelson Mandela in 1994, sought to bring secure land tenure, economic development, and democrat po those dispossessed by discriminatory minute deve apartheid-era laws and policies. The Northern Cape's Kontony minority-rule a community constructed for the purpose of meeting restithoonini San people struggled unsuccessfully from their historic land-claim victory in 1999 uml 2008 to operate the reform hay leadership and decision-making structin 1999 until 2008 them by land reform laws in the names of democracy and commun Even given the 20th-century history of the Khomani San as a diverse, dispersed people adopting a variety of livelihood strategies including performing for tourists and working on white-owned sheep farms, today's Khomani maintain a strong hunter-gatherer identity and display many of the community characteristics seen among other San and foraging peoples, including organizing themselves and making decisions in small, fluid, egalitarian groups. As such, the hierarchical, representative, community-wide committee structures imposed upon the Khomani by land reform were both 'foreign' and culturally inappropriate to them, resulting in the apathy, hopelessness, and rampant alcohol abuse seen among other indigenous communities in such circumstances. However, after the lifting of these structures by Government under a punitive policy known as 'administration', the Khomani have begun to flourish on their restored lands, quietly taking the reins of power in their own ways and making significant strides in the areas of community cohesion, pride, hope, cooperation, and economic development, particularly since 2012. However, unless restitution laws and/or their implementation procedures are amended, the decade of failure and despair is likely to be repeated on the #Khomani lands, as 'administration' will soon come to an end.