By LARC On 23 February 2023, oral arguments were heard by the Constitutional Court in the matter of Constance Mogale and Others v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others, CCT 73/2022.
Tag: Contralesa
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May 23 2022
Government’s ‘consultation’ on communal land tenure just a tick-box exercise
By Katlego Ramantsima Developing land tenure legislation is a difficult job to get right — especially given the legacy of intractable problems inherited from apartheid. The Gauteng consultation did not seem genuine: it lasted only three hours.
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Sep 13 2018
Latest Traditional Courts Bill draft flouts constitutional rights even more disturbingly
Perhaps we should have seen this coming. Based on the antagonistic tone of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services during public hearings held in March this year, the newest version of the Traditional Courts Bill (TCB) was likely to be a disappointment.
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May 13 2014
Haste over land rights bill not just in aid of buying votes*
AMONG the slew of “priority” laws hastily adopted at the final sitting of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) was the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill. This is an exact replay of what happened in 2004, when the contentious Communal Land Rights Act was unceremoniously rammed through Parliament just as it closed for a …
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Sep 30 2013
Traditional authorities and the new peasants in Zanu-PF’s Zimbabwe
A recent article by Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) president Patekile Holomisa lauding Robert Mugabe as a “true African hero” begged the question: “What is the role of Zimbabwe’s traditional authorities in that country’s complicated political economy?” Holomisa didn’t ask. Rather, he wrote that Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (some call this …
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