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23 May 2013
                       
 
 
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20 May 2013
 
 
SA: Statement by Thandi Modise, North West Premier, on progress of traditional leadership disputes investigations (19/05/2013)
STATEMENT
The North West Committee on Traditional Leadership Disputes and Claims has finalised investigations into 102 disputes involving traditional leadership and presented its recommendations for...
 
 
20 Mar 2013
 
Clash of mandates: Traditional and gender constitutional provisions in South Africa
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
With the advent of democracy, South Africa’s Constitution, declared as the “supreme law of the Republic,”(2) was intended to right the inequality and injustices imposed in the colonial and...
 
 
14 Mar 2013
 
 
 
Pilane and Another v Pilane and Another (CCT 46/12) [2013] ZACC 3
Constitutional Court
On 28 February 2013, the majority of the Constitutional Court upheld an appeal by members of the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela Traditional Community (Traditional Community) against three interdicts of the...
 
 
07 Mar 2013
 
SA: Jacob Zuma: Address by the President of South Africa, on the occasion of The Official Opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders, Cape Town (07/03/2013)
Topics
Two weeks ago, I delivered the State of the Nation Address where we outlined progress made and the priorities and direction of our government for the new financial year. I committed government to...
 
 
28 Feb 2013
 
SA: Statement by the Constitutional Court of South Africa, on appeal by members of the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela Traditional Community (28/02/2013)
STATEMENT
On 28 February 2013, the majority of the Constitutional Court upheld an appeal by members of the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela Traditional Community (Traditional Community) against three interdicts of the...
 
 
13 Feb 2013
 
The right to cultural freedom and forced marriages in SA: What the Constitution giveth, the Constitution taketh away
CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Recently the media was flooded with reports of a 13-year-old girl who was married off to a sangoma (57) in an attempt to alleviate her apparent struggle with the ancestral spirits and cure her of...
 
 
18 Jan 2013
 
 
 
Summit aims to revisit the standard of law qualifications in SA
Legal Education
The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) is planning to host a summit in the first half of 2013 that will discuss the concerns that exist around the standard of the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in...
 
 
13 Nov 2012
 
Securing Sudan and South Sudan’s economic and political futures: The real value of oil
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
On 9 July 2011, the world’s newest nation was born. The Republic of Sudan had been in conflict for the majority of its independence since 1956. South Sudan gained its autonomy from the North...
 
 
05 Nov 2012
 
SA: Statement by the Centre for Constitutional Rights, concerned about President Zuma's remarks on the justice system (05/11/2012)
STATEMENT
Addressing the National House of Traditional Leaders in Parliament, President Zuma remarked that traditional authorities had sufficient capacity to deal with legal matters affecting people under...
 
 
04 Oct 2012
 
Another milestone judgment that recognises the women’s matrimonial property rights in SA
Constitutional Court
In December 2008 the Constitutional Court delivered a milestone judgment in the case of Gumede v The President of the Republic of South Africa. In this case the Court declared certain provisions of...
 
 
02 Aug 2012
 
DA: Statement by Debbie Schafer Democratic Alliance Shadow Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, welcomes Traditional Courts Bill ‘overhaul’ (02/08/2012)
STATEMENT
The DA welcomes yesterday’s announcement by the Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana that, after discussions with the Minister of Justice, the Traditional Courts...
 
 
25 Jun 2012
 
CASAC: Statement by Lawson Naidoo, Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution legal advisor, on reckless comments made regarding the Traditional Courts Bill matter (25/06/2012)
STATEMENT
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) is concerned by some of the public statements that have been made by Nkosi Pathekile Holomisa and Chief Mangosutho...
 
 
24 May 2012
 
DA: Statement by Helen Zille, Democratic Alliance Leader, on the Traditional Courts Bill (24/05/2012)
STATEMENT
The Traditional Courts Bill was reintroduced unchanged to the National Council of Provinces this year despite having been withdrawn after its initial introduction in 2008 following widespread...
 
 
18 May 2012
 
Oil companies and their human rights (ir)responsibilities
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
In recent years, gas and oil discoveries have been made on the African continent in countries such as Mozambique,(2) Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda and on prospected fields in Kenya, Mali and Sierra...
 
 
30 Mar 2012
 
 
 
Traditional Courts Bill [B1 – 2012]
BILL
To affirm the recognition of the traditional justice system and its values, based on restorative justice and reconciliation; to provide for the structure and functioning of traditional courts in...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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