The recent enactment of two pieces of traditional leadership legislation legitimises the suppression of free economic activity in communal areas, deprives people of access to resources and opens the way to violence against them.
Tag: rural communities
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May 31 2019
Press Statement: Reject the Bantustan Bills and March to Union Buildings
On 5 June, 2019, women and men alike, in their hundreds, will march to the Union Buildings to assert their rejection of policies which seek to revive apartheid and colonial Bantustan laws governing citizenship, land, and the property rights of rural communities, by turning its people into subjects wholly dependent on the benevolence of traditional …
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Mar 25 2019
Looting of land rights continues as Parliament signs two controversial bills
Two bills recently rammed through Parliament will benefit traditional and political leaders, not the poorest and most vulnerable in the country.
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Feb 21 2019
Mining rights ride roughshod over property rights
It is not just the government that has failed. Mining companies have usurped land belonging to rural communities without due regard for their property rights.
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Dec 12 2018
Parliament’s final push on dangerous traditional leadership bills
The recognition of traditional communities in the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill comes with baggage. The “traditional communities” recognised in the TKLB are those previously called “tribes” under colonialism and apartheid. Tribal authorities were established for them in terms of the 1951 Black Authorities Act, and their territories eventually became the Bantustans. Given this context, …
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