CULTURAL CONUNDRUM Gogo Maweni's assault case ignites debate on witchcraft's legal status in South Africa 3 min 4 By Michelle Banda
KZN LAND TUSSLE Zulu king fumes about government ‘overreach’, wants less state oversight of Ingonyama Trust 4 min 11 By Chris Makhaye
GBV OP-ED Women traditional leaders play critical role in the fight against rural gender-based violence 4 min 0 By Chenai Matshaka and Nkosikazi Nondumiso Pumela Ngonyama
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ‘Major victory’ — activists and civil society hail judgment declaring Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act invalid 4 min 2 By Takudzwa Pongweni
CUSTOMARY LAW Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act challenged in Constitutional Court 8 min 0 By Takudzwa Pongweni
CUSTOMARY LAW OP-ED Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act that ‘recreates the Bantustans’ heads to ConCourt 8 min 0 By Thiyane Duda
RURAL LAW & LEGISLATION Activists decry ‘unconstitutional’ passing of Traditional Courts Bill, plead with Ramaphosa not to sign 3 min 2 By Zukiswa Pikoli
2022 LAND CONFERENCE ‘We can’t be trespassers on our forefathers’ land’ — frustrated small-scale fishers 3 min 0 By Naledi Sikhakhane
POSSESSION AND DISPOSSESSION Communal Land Rights Bill ignores community views, conference told 4 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
PCC EXPERT SERIES — OUR PEOPLE Women are locked out of the climate adaptation plan — we need to align culture and tradition to fix this 11 min 0 By Fonda Lewis and Michelle Browne
CULTURE Rethinking ukuthwala, the South African ‘bride abduction’ custom 4 min 1 By Nyasha Karimakwenda
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed Women, (neo-)colonial customary law, patriarchy, custodianship and the land debate 5 min 0 By Narnia Bohler-Muller and Fathima Zahra Ebrahim Mayet
MAVERICK CITIZEN Customary law was bastardised to become a vehicle of oppression, Thuli Madonsela tells conference 4 min 2 By Zukiswa Pikoli
Civil Society Watch 23 August-29 August Nelson Mandela Foundation hosts annual lecture and feminist collective reclaims Women’s Month 3 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
CIVIL SOCIETY SPEAKS Traditional Courts Bill ‘ignores the constitutional rights of the rural communities it is meant to protect’ 1 min 0 By Christi Nortier
DM168: DISRUPTOR Nolundi Luwaya on land and law: Protecting customary rights in South Africa’s former homelands 4 min 0 By Unknown Author
OP-ED The Traditional Courts Bill will enable concentration of power in one individual – a traditional leader 8 min 0 By Anton van Dalsen
OP-ED Vulnerable rural people at further risk as parliamentary committee adopts controversial Traditional Courts Bill 4 min 0 By Nolundi Luwaya
