A Bill currently before parliament promises overdue recognition for Khoisan communities and their leaders. In fact, however, the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Bill is a smokescreen for entrenching autocratic traditional councils, which have dodged fiscal and democratic accountability for more than two decades.
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Sep 23 2015
DEMOCRACY LOSES OUT AS NEW BILL TIGHTENS CHIEF’S IRON GRIP
THE Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill, which was made public on Friday, offers no relief to the 18 million South Africans who are still locked into regimes of traditional authority in apartheid’s former homelands. The thrust of the Bill makes it clear that government plans to forego the opportunity of a new law to give …
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