Tag: customary law

King Zwelithini’s trust keeps people poor

There was a backlash against the Ingonyama Trust Board even before the release of the Presidential Expert Advisory Panel Report on Land Reform and Agriculture last month and the subsequent media coverage.

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Battle for AmaMpondo kingship in court again

On 20 August, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria will hear the latest instalment of a legal battle for the kingship of AmaMpondo.  The present-day dispute has been before South African courts since 2011 – although its genesis lies further back in history.

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Lobby groups call on Ramaphosa not to sign Traditional, Khoi-San bills

A fifteen minute “highlights package’” from a Dialogue hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory on 30 July 2019.

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Xolobeni — the mine, the murder and the DG

A voice from the grave accuses Sandile Nogxina, a former director-general and now advisor to the mining minister, of betraying a community.

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Xolobeni community being coerced into giving up land rights

Mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe wants to ask unemployed people from surrounding villages whether mining should go ahead.

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