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Government does not have the right to ignore rural citizens 24 May 2021 In a remarkable display of legal gymnastics, parliament’s constitutional and legal services office has suggested that there is no problem with highly contested changes to the Traditional Courts Bill. In a remarkable display of legal gymnastics, parliament’s constitutional and legal services office has suggested that there is no problem with highly contested changes to the Traditional Courts Bill. To its credit, the portfolio committee of justice and correctional services has decided to seek an additional, external opinion on the matter after a presentation from a representative of the law adviser’s office to the committee on 14 May 2021. The presentation was supposed to clear up the question of whether the Bill was unconstitutional, despite removing the right of millions of citizens in the former homeland areas to opt out of traditional courts and choose to pursue justice through the mag ....
The new version of the Traditional Courts Bill (TCB) that I, and many other rural women have spent years grappling with, and are seeking to expose, is back in Parliament again. As before, there is nothing in the bill that acknowledges the structural exclusion and alienation that many women experience in such courts, and nothing but vague platitudes to address these burning issues. The more Parliament refuses to hear rural women’s voices against the TCB, the louder we will scream. When the first version of the bill was defeated in Parliament, after five of the nine provinces refused to support it, Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery established a reference group consisting of traditional leaders, four civil society individuals and government. I was one of the civil society participants in the drafting processes, and I remember that traumatic process very well. The keywords and content were changed so often behind our backs that we got confused about which version we were wor ....
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