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The Stop the Bantustan Campaign is working hard to stop the government from enacting the unconstitutional and harmful Bantustan act.
To do this, we need resources and are reaching our to various partner organisations. To find out more, download our concept note on the ongoing activities of the campaign.
The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act (TKLA) and the Traditional Courts Act will effectively bring back apartheid Bantustans.
There are other laws and policies that we see as a potential threat to rural democracy. These include the Communal Land Tenure Bill, the Restitution Amendment, the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act, the Expropriation Bill, the failure to enact permanent legislation to protect informal land rightsholders under customary law
We have created a brochure to help understand what these Bantustans are.
The Stop the Bantustan Campaign is working hard to stop the government from enacting the unconstitutional and harmful Bantustan Act. To do this, we need resources. To find out more, download our concept note on the ongoing activities of the campaign.
The Stop the Bantustans Campaign does not oppose the formal recognition of the Khoi and San people and their leaders.
The challenge to the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act is rooted in the frustrations felt by traditional communities in rural South Africa. Stop the Bantustans Campaign advocates for accountable legislation, transparency in land administration, good governance of communal property and upholding rural democracy.
Stop the Bantustans Campaign supports and recognizes traditional leaders and customary law that reflects the existing consensual and transparent nature of how traditional communities self-govern and self-regulate natural resource allocations.
In June 2019, rural communities and allies marched to the Union Buildings, Pretoria to demand that President Ramaphosa must StopTheBantustans – up to 1200 people participated in the march. At the Union Buildings, the rural communities handed over a memorandum to the Presidency to StopTheBantustanBills.
On May 30, 2023, the Concourt issued its decision in the matter of Constance Mogale and Others vs Speaker of the National Assembly and Others. In favour of the applicants. The Concourt determined that parliament failed to secure enough public engagement, and thus deemed the TKLA illegal. The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act has been referred back to Parliament, however, its invalidity is suspended for 24 months. The Concourt concluded that the arguments of rural residents who attended hearings demonstrated that Parliament did not conduct the public hearings equitably. This campaign is our way of making sure that rural voices, especially those of women, are heard and centered in land laws and land policies.
