11 Dec 2019
by Richard Raber
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Last week South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Traditional Khoi-San Leadership Act. Some have called it controversial, others colonial or corrupting. And indeed, it is all of those things. But it also signals the utter contempt the government has for rural people.
11 Dec 2019
by Zukiswa Pikoli
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In a recent article in Maverick Citizen, we explained that the Traditional and Khoi-san Leadership Act was likely to rob millions of rural people, women in particular, of their rights. Maverick Citizen sought the views of rural land activists from […]
11 Dec 2019
by Molatelo Mohale
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The recent enactment of two pieces of traditional leadership legislation legitimises the suppression of free economic activity in communal areas, deprives people of access to resources and opens the way to violence against them.
02 Dec 2019
by John Clarke
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Last week I was privileged to interview Zapiro about his latest cartoon collection Which Side is Up? It is a rhetorical question appended to a cartoon that caricatures “King” Cyril and “Ace” Magashule on the same classic playing card.
01 Dec 2019
by Legal Resources Centre
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On 20 November 2019 President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the contentious Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act into law. While the Act has not come into force yet, it will have a devastating impact on the lives of people living on communal […]
01 Dec 2019
by Mark Heywood
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On Thursday, Parliament announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa had signed the Traditional Khoisan Leadership Bill on 20 November 2019, thereby robbing millions of people living in rural areas of fundamental rights and shoring up the power of unelected and predominantly […]
18 Nov 2019
by Ruth Hopkins
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Ahead of SA’s watershed 1994 election, 3-million hectares of KwaZulu land were transferred into the Ingonyama Trust, under the Zulu king. On November 22, the high court in Pietermaritzburg will hear residents who claim they have been unlawfully forced to […]
15 Nov 2019
by Kathleen Wootton
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The connection between 5.2 million South Africans and security of tenure to their lands and homes is the burning issue in a landmark case coming to court.
11 Nov 2019
by Aninka Claassens
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The two bills default to the colonial and apartheid denial of the property rights of people who have inherited their homes and land over generations.
08 Nov 2019
by Molatelo Mohale
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Rural communities bear the brunt of the abusive and discriminatory comportment of traditional chiefs who enjoy state support.