Increase the volume of rural community voices to Stop the Bantustan Bills in the new Democracy.
It seem as if rural communities are speaking to a toy phone, no one is listening to their plight. The President’s statements during State of the Nation Address (SONA) and during the opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) confirms, the President is definitely not listening. Yesterday, the National Assembly passed the Traditional […]
The Stop the Bantustan Bills Campaign will be watching today’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) closely, expecting clarity on what legislative agenda will be outlined for the next three months.
Yesterday marked the opening of Parliament for one of our shorter legislative periods leading up to national elections in May this year. This means that Parliament will be working hard to finalize pending legislation before it lapses in terms of the rules of Parliament. The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (TKLB) is close to finalization, […]
Stop The Bantustan Bills calls for action to stop the National Assembly from passing the unconstitutional Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill (TKLB) and the Traditional Courts Bill (TCB).
In January the NCOP convened in an “special sitting” outside of the normal Parliamentary sessions to pass three bills, one of which is the TKLB. This bill will impose separate and unconstitutional laws on the 17 million South Africans living in the former Bantustans. In its current form the TKLB will: Effectively strip those in former […]