Mar 18 2022
By Paddy Harper
The public process to nominate members of a new Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) has finally started after several months of delay.
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Mar 07 2022
The stage is now set for Prince Misuzulu KaZwelithini to be crowned as the next king of amaZulu.
This, after KwaZulu-Natal Deputy Judge President Isaac Madondo dismissed three separate applications on Wednesday by the late King Goodwill Zwelithini’s first wife, Queen Winifred Dlamini-Zulu, her two daughters, Princess Ntandoyenkosi Zulu and Princess Ntombizosuthu Zulu-Duma, and another by Prince Mbonisi Zulu, the late king’s brother.
King Goodwill Zwelithini died in March last year in a Durban hospital after suffering a Covid-related illness. In his will, he nominated his wife, Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, as the regent. But Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu died less than a month after the death of her husband. In her will, which was read after her funeral, she nominated her son Prince Misuzulu as the next king of amaZulu.
Since this nomination, the amaZulu royal family has been split down the middle, with some supporting the ascension of Prince Misuzulu KaZwelithini, and others opposing it.
See the legal tussle here.
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Jan 31 2022
The spate of recent attacks on traditional leaders in KwaZulu-Natal has resulted in the provincial government giving the green light to the establishment of a community safety intervention unit.
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Jan 18 2022
Rural communities in the former bantustans, land-rights activists and land-rights organisations are preparing to challenge the constitutionality of the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act 3 of 2019 (TKLA).
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Jan 13 2022
The Failed Promise of Tenure Security. Customary Land Rights and Dispossession. Hosted by Legal Resources Centre, LARC at University of Cape Town, PLAAS at University of Western Cape and SWOP and Wits. 23-25 February 2022. Register at https://bit.ly/LAND22
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