South Africa: Draft Traditional Laws Reimpose Colonial Logic
Published on: Monday 10 June 2019
Analysis - Draft laws currently before the president closely resemble previous versions of colonial and apartheid laws that locked African people into “tribal” reserves, under the authority of despotic forms of rule legitimated in the name of “tradition”. This was a colonial perversion of precolonial forms of politics that sought to encase African people in fixed and authoritarian ideas of “tradition”.
News source: https://allafrica.com/stories/201906100638.html
