evidence: Deals to appease the leadership of Swaziland – now eSwatini – and Lesotho by offering additional territory were chronicled in a journal article by Chitja Twala and John Aerni-Flessner who examined Lesotho’s claim to ‘Conquered Territory’ and argued that border contestations were central to defining ideas of state power in southern Africa during the apartheid era. [...] Today, the governments and residents of both Lesotho and eSwatini still lay claim to some of South Africa’s land.What residents of former "homelands" and the two states have in common are limited government services and few job prospects. This has happened because residents of all these places have historically been denied the freedom to seek employment in South Africa’s best jobs. [...] KaNgwane leaders rejected the deal. The KwaZulu administration, which would have lost its Ingwavuma District as well under the deal, sued in court to have it declared void. And so, the deal gradually fell apart and was never consummated.