Over the next month the Western Cape Provincial Parliament will undertake public hearings across the province on the 2015 Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (“TKLB”).
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Mar 04 2018
Ramaphosa’s speech to the House of Traditional Leaders betrays SONA’s promises on mining
President Cyril Ramaphosa urged traditional leaders to be accountable when he opened the National House of Traditional Leaders on Tuesday, reminding them that their greatest source of legitimacy must come from the people they govern. In the same speech, however, he said that the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (TKLB), which deeply undermines that accountability, …
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Dec 13 2017
Civil Society statement on the ANC National Conference
The ANC’s 54th National Conference on Saturday is an historic opportunity to acknowledge and reverse growing poverty and inequality, disintegrating social cohesion and the devastating failure of the government’s land reform programme, which shows increasing signs of capture by politically connected elites.
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Nov 06 2017
Leadership bill dissolves rather than strengthens power of rural people
The pleas of thousands of rural people who made difficult journeys to attend public hearings across the country are largely ignored in the amended version of the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill set to be adopted by the National Assembly this week. Appeals for consultation, the right to decide the use of their own land, …
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Oct 19 2017
NCOP extends deadline for comment on traditional councils Bill
The National Council of Provinces has extended until 27 October the deadline for comments on an amendment Bill of vital interest to rural communities that are subject to traditional leaders and the councils they dominate. (Call for comment)
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