Rural South Africans in areas under the jurisdiction of traditional leaders have yet to enjoy the rights enjoyed by citizens in urban areas. People in urban areas can vote and can be voted for. These are the tenets of democracy. Yet rural residents are not able to exercise such rights in relation to their leaders, …
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Apr 29 2015
Jezile Ukuthwala Judgment Signals Progress and Continuing Challenges
A girl will learn very early in life how the society she inhabits measures her value, and what gender roles she is expected to adhere to. Ukuthwala cases involving brutality lay bare the importance of questioning and undermining gender norms that are detrimental to girls and women, whether these standards are part of the status …
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Apr 10 2015
Government cocks a snook at the courts over labour tenants
South Africans disagree sharply about who should own the land. They disagree too about who should be the country’s future farmers and food providers. But few South Africans would disagree that our future as a peaceful, if not prosperous, country depends on respect for the judiciary and the Courts. And yet the sorry case of …
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Mar 05 2015
Dikgang Moseneke: Constitution allows for land expropriation*
At a public discussion on the land question in Johannesburg on Friday, February 27, Dikgang Moseneke, the Deputy Chief Judge of the Constitutional Court, began his remarks with a well-known quote from Frantz Fanon: “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which …
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Feb 18 2015
How the land redistribution budget is being diverted to elites*
The government says land redistribution is at the top of its agenda. Its actions say otherwise. The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform’s only funding initiative for land reform beneficiaries, the Recapitalisation and Development Programme (RECAP), is diverting funds away from land reform and towards a small group of commercial farmers and preferred “strategic …
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