Chiefs in South Africa: law, power & culture in the post-apartheid era
The author questions what the relationship is between traditional authority, custom and culture and customary law in the new South Africa, why the relationship is changing and what it teaches us about the interrelation between laws, politics and culture in the post-modern world.
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| Zusammenfassung: | The author questions what the relationship is between traditional authority, custom and culture and customary law in the new South Africa, why the relationship is changing and what it teaches us about the interrelation between laws, politics and culture in the post-modern world. |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 272 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780852558812 0852558805 1869140672 1403970858 0852558813 9780852558805 |
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| adam_text | Chiefs
in South Africa
Law, Power amp; Culture
in the Post-Apartheid Era
BARBARA OOMEN
Assistant Professor of Law amp; Development
University of Amsterdam
James Currey
OXFORD
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
PIETERMARITZBURG
palgrave
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Photographs
1 Introduction
Reawakenings 1
1 The dawning of the dawn l
2 A new world 4
The nation-state - New politics - Renegotiating the culture card -
The rise of rights to roots - The resurgence of the traditional leaders
3 Past nightmares 13
Culture and colonialism - The creation of customary law -
The character of bureaucratic chieftaincy
4 Theoretical challenges 20
Law power, culture - The constitutive effects of cultural rights
legislation - The resurgence of traditional leadership
5 An approach to the study 29
The locality1 - Traditional leaders, living law - A place - Methods
6 Outline of the study 36
2 The Patchwork Democracy
Boundary Politics after 1994 n
1 Introduction 37
2 The legacy 40
3 Imagining the future: constitutional negotiations 45
1991-1992: Talks about talks - 1993: Formulating the interim
Constitution - 1994-1996: Drafting the final Constitution
4 Towards a Traditional Authorities Act 54
5 Two bulls in a kraal? : the local government discussion 59
The Local Government Transition Act - The White Paper and new
municipal legislation - The 2000 implementation crisis
6 Keeping control over land 70
Hanekom: the socialist years - Didiza: back to traditional communities
7 The customary law debates 77
Relations: customary law and the Bill of Rights - Rules:
the Law Commission s harmonisation project - Guarding the
customary courts
8 Conclusion 85
vi Contents
3 The Power of Definition
Struggling for the Soul of Custom 87
1 Introduction 87
2 Who did the defining? The actors 90
The African National Congress - The IFP and some unlikely allies -
Contralesa: chiefs in politics - The civics: a wilting counterweight -
The Traditional Affairs officials
3 Why could they? Signs of the times 102
Party-political power - Path dependency - The quest for an
African identity - Transformations of the state - The rise of group rights
4 The assumptions 115
Rural-urban difference - Community-think - Coherent systems of
customary law - Chiefly legitimacy
5 Conclusion 121
4 Sekhukhune
The Institutional Landscape 123
1 Introduction 123
2 From Bopedi to Lebowa 125
3 Traditional leadership and its spheres 132
Palace politics - Bureaucracy - Party politics
4 The institutional landscape 143
Elected local government - Government departments - The civics - Mapogo a
Mathamaga - The churches - Organisations of business and migrants
5 Asserting control 156
Control over resources - Control over boundaries -
Control over people - Control over meaning
6 Conclusion 162
5 Walking in the middle of the road
People s Perspectives on the Legitimacy of Traditional Leadership 164
1 Chieftaincy and legitimacy 164
2 How do people support chiefs? 168
Within limits - Issue-related - Not exclusive - Dynamic
3 Support at community level 175
Hoepakranz: out on the mountains - Ga-Masha: one step away from riches -
Mamone: retraditionalisation in a fast-changing world
4 Support dependent on chiefly characteristics 182
Supporting chiefs, supporting chieftaincy - Virtues and vices of traditional leaders
5 Support at the individual level 186
This is a thing of our parents : the youth and the elders -
The paradox of the women - Moving up moving out: education and income
6 Why do people support traditional leaders? 193
These are our roots : traditional legitimacy - They do good things for us :
performance as a source of legitimation - They guard us for the government -
What else is there? : default legitimation
7 Conclusion 198
Contents vii
6 Negotiated Laws, Relational Rights
Power, Authority amp; the Creation of Local Law 200
1 Introduction 200
2 Living law and legal culture in Sekhukhune 204
Plurality of forums - Negotiated law - State law as a resource -
Relational rights - A processual legal culture
3 Stories of succession 218
Succession: the official version - Living law - Interactions - Illustrations
4 The Commission on the Tribal Constitution 229
5 Conclusion 233
7 Conclusion
Categories have Consequences
The Constitutive Effects of Cultural Rights Legislation 235
1 Introduction 235
2 Definitions and struggles 236
3 The constitutive effects of cultural rights legislation 240
Sekhukhune subjects - Political formations - Material
implications - Categories and chiefly resurgence
4 Law, power and culture 246
5 Alternatives 249
References 253
Index 267
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