President Jacob Zuma put the spotlight on traditional leaders when he urged them to secure the services of lawyers for a reopened land restitution process. “I think those who are claiming should find good lawyers to help address this matter… you could put together your resources to look at this law, to look at …
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Apr 15 2014
Restitution Bill dead on arrival*
The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill is awaiting President Jacob Zuma’s signature. But it is dead in the water, signed or not. The government has neither the money nor the human capacity to settle outstanding restitution claims, let alone the new ones the bill will elicit. People who made claims before 1998, or who …
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Apr 04 2014
Empty promises to rural people*
The Land Restitution Bill approved by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on March 24 may raise a cheer from traditional leaders, but it is not the game-changer that President Jacob Zuma promised in his State of the Nation address last year. Zuma and his Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, punted …
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Feb 27 2014
Violent forms of ukuthwala reveal longstanding brutality against women
To understand South Africa’s present condition, in which violence against women and girls is endemic, we must travel back to an unfamiliar past. Digging deep, answers can be unearthed to questions about forms of gendered abuse that unrelentingly flourish today. It is important to do this work, as violence against women cannot be eradicated without …
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Feb 06 2014
TCB contradicts the democracy that rural people fought for
With the Traditional Courts Bill (TCB) again being discussed in parliament, it is important to remember what it took for people from rural areas to raise their voices at the provincial public hearings on the bill that were held in 2012. Living in democratic South Africa means exercising the hard-won right to voice your position …
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