EC traditional leaders want royal representation in provincial legislature

By LULAMILE FENI

Eastern Cape traditional leaders believe it is high time that all kings should have royal representatives or parliamentary councillors in the provincial legislature, as is the case in Kwazulu-Natal.

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One of feuding parties to skip meeting on AmaMpondo royal family dispute

By LULAMILE FENI

Premier Oscar Mabuyane’s effort to reunify the AmaMpondo royal family, after a two-year-dispute over which branch of the nation has the right to appoint an acting king or queen, is to be snubbed by one of the factions.

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South Africa’s Unanswered Land Question

By Katlego Ramantsima and Refiloe Joala

South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. To this day, it has shocking levels of poverty and unemployment. This inequality is starkly apparent in the country’s pervasive Apartheid landscape, where overcrowded informal settlements and townships lie next to leafy suburbs and sprawling, almost exclusively White-owned, large-scale commercial farms.

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Will the proposed GNU deliver on the land question?

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A significant protest by land rights activists went by without much fanfare in Polokwane on the night of June 18. While the eyes, ears and minds of South Africans were focused on the outcomes of the government of national unity talks, a group of activists staged a peaceful night vigil at the Limpopo premier’s offices. 

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Opinion | It’s about people’s rights

By Nokwanda Sihlali

Zulu King Misuzulu Sinqobile kaZwelithini invited amakhosi to an imbizo last month to discuss “the serious threats of survival of the Ingonyama Trust amid continued efforts to take away land under control of amakhosi, who hold this land in trust on behalf of the Zulu people”.

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