Riyaz Patel
Amid the mayoral manoeuvres in Johannesburg and Tshwane Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa quietly signed into a law a Bill that, according to the Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), will strip some 18 million of the poorest South Africans of their most basic rights.
The Traditional & Khoi San Leadership Bill (TKLB) is an “unmitigated disaster for 18 million rural black South Africans – a third of SA – who are now transcribed as subjects rather than citizens,” added Josh Budlender from the Socio Economic Rights Institute (SERI).
“No prior law in South African history, even during colonialism and apartheid, has enabled traditional leaders to dispossess people of their land rights without either their consent, or expropriation.”
Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC)
LARC charged that two panel submissions on land reform – one chaired by former president Kgalema Motlanthe (2017) and the other by Ramaphosa’s
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