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Land, law and chiefs in rural South Africa : contested histories and current struggles by William Beinart; Rosalie Kingwill; Gavin Capps; William Beinart; Rosalie Kingwill; Gavin Capps; Geoff Budlender; Raphael Chaskalson; Thiyane Duda; Derick Fay; Sonwabile Mnwana; Khumisho Moguerane; Ayesha Motala; Joanna Pickering; Dineo Skosana; Janine Ubink; Tara Weinberg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This edited collection illustrates contestations over land and political authority in South Africa's rural areas, focusing on threats to popular rights and how they are being supported. Who controls the land and minerals in the former Bantustans of South Africa - chiefs, the state or landholders? Disputes are taking place around the ownership of resources, decisions about their exploitation and who should benefit. With respect to all of these issues, the courts have become increasingly important. The contributors to Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa capture some of these intense contestations over land, law and political authority, focussing on threats to the rights of ordinary people. History and customary law feature strongly in most disputes and succession to chieftaincy is also frequently disputed. Judges have to make decisions in a context where rival claimants to property or office assert their own versions of history and custom. The South African constitution recognizes customary law and the courts are attempting to incorporate and develop this branch of jurisprudence as 'living customary law'. Lawyers, community leaders and academics are called on to assist i
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- Author
- William Beinart; Rosalie Kingwill; Gavin Capps; William Beinart; Rosalie Kingwill; Gavin Capps; Geoff Budlender; Raphael Chaskalson; Thiyane Duda; Derick Fay; Sonwabile Mnwana; Khumisho Moguerane; Ayesha Motala; Joanna Pickering; Dineo Skosana; Janine Ubink; Tara Weinberg
- Publisher
- Wits University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781136886065
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Economics, Management
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