#42-25 South Africa Traditional Courts Bill … After 15 years of opposition, it became law
Explains the struggle against the Traditional Courts Bill, which after 15 years of successful opposition has now been signed into law, giving unbounded power including discrimination against women, to so-called traditional chiefs in the rural areas. One of the key opponents died before this bill was re-introduced for the last time.
Speakers: Erna Curry; Sizani Ngubane, founder of the Rural Women’s Movement in Kwazulu Natal province; Nolundi Luwaya, Researcher at the Law, Race and Gender Unit at the University of Cape Town [now director of the Land and Accountability Research Centre]; Aninka Claassens, Chief Researcher, Land and Accountability Research Centre, University of Cape Town; Mnisi Weeks, Associate Professor in Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) [She previously worked in the Rural Women’s Action Research Programme at UCT]; Patrick Mashego, community leader, Limpopo province, South Africa.
Credits: Primary producer, Erna Curry; contributing interviewer, Marsha Branch; series editor, Frieda Werden
https://www.radio4all.net/files/wingsradionews@gmail.com/WINGS-42-25TradCourtsBill-28_48-128kbps.mp3