By Setumo Stone The Supreme Court of Appeal judgment last week highlighted systemic failures in the administration of traditional leadership disputes under the North West Traditional Leadership and Governance Act.
Tag: Bakgatla ba Kgafela
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Mar 01 2023
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act that ‘recreates the Bantustans’ heads to ConCourt
By Thiyane Duda Rural citizens argue that by signing the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act, the President made the abusive actions of traditional leaders legal. They have no issue with the fact that, at last, the law recognises Khoi and San leaders and communities.
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Nov 11 2019
‘Bantustan Bills’ trample on the rights of rural people
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.
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Nov 01 2019
The chief, the mines and the lost Bakgatla billions
After two years of investigations of the flow of billions of rands into and out of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community, the work of the Baloyi Commission of Inquiry may come to nothing. Since the report of the Commission was released at the end of August, showing how Chief Nyalala Pilane presided over the mismanagement …
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Sep 10 2019
Stealing the Crust III: Universal lessons from a local mining fraud
In late August 2019, mere days before mass violence erupted in central Johannesburg, the Baloyi Commission released its report into the corruption that had been plaguing the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela, an indigenous community of 350,000, since at least 1998.
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