Tag: rural democracy

Friday Activist: Constance Mogale

Zukiswa Pikoli ‘As a black child, you cannot say you’re not an activist unless you are not conscious of your environment!’

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Report: Deepening Democracy: Dialogue on the ‘Bantustan Bills’

On July 30th2019, over fifty community activists, ANC veterans, researchers, lawyers, NGOs, government officials and journalists gathered in Johannesburg for a dialogue on two bills that particularly affect people living in rural South Africa. Community activists have labelled the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (TKLB) and the Traditional Courts Bill (TCB) as the “Bantustan Bills” because …

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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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