Citizenship & Accountability Conference
Flagship Events at the Bonavero Institute
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges to that transition have been the questions of the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state.
The Citizenship & Accountability conference, co-hosted by the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, the Programme for the Foundations of Law & Constitutional Government in Oxford, and the Land and Accountability Research Centre at the University of Cape Town, drew together scholars, practitioners and judges from South Africa and beyond to discuss the question around litigating customary law and traditional leadership under South Africa's democratic constitution.
Monday 17 June 2019
Session 1: Where are we now? The Constitution, Traditional Leaders and Customary Law
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Chair: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
Session 2: What is living customary law? And how should the courts identify it and apply it?
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Chair: Nick Barber
Session 3: Mining and Resources: issues arising from recent ligitation
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Chair: Nolundi Luwaya
Johan Lorenzen
Michael Bishop
Session 4: Traditional leaders and communities, money and accountability
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Chair: Jonny Steinberg
Wilmien Wicomb
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Session 5: The Scope of Chiefly Power
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Chair: Jason Brickhill
Michael Mbikiwa
Session 6: The Way Forward
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Chair: Thandabantu Nhlapo
Geoff Budlender
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
