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Showing 1 to 20 of 466 for “"Customary"”.
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Customary governance and expressions of living customary law at Dwesa-Cwebe: contributions to small-scale fisheries governance in South Africa
Customary systems of marine resource governance have gained increasing attention internationally in the past three decades. Notwithstanding this, and despite the Constitutional recognition of customary governance and customary law in South Africa, the post-apartheid legislative reforms in the …
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Urban planning practice under neo-customary land tenure
… formal land administration or romanticised customary tenure systems. Recent policy trends have emphasised the integration of customary and state tenure systems as a nascent strategy to achieve equitable land delivery. Conceptually embedded in the exploratory concepts of co-production and …
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The legal implications of customary law adoptions in South Africa
Customary law is an integral part of South African law. Various pieces of legislation were enacted under the Constitution , resulting in the statutory regulation of certain aspects of customary law. The primary rationale for doing so is improving women's and children's lives. However, the …
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Frank Overton Colbert: A Study in Trans-Customary Indigenous Modern Art
… light on Colbert’s larger project as a trans-customary artist, a trans-cultural interpreter, and a significant indigenous presence within the evolving canons of both Native North American modernism and American modernist painting.
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Assessing customary land administration systems for peri-urban land in Ghana
Customary tenure is the predominant land tenure system in Ghana. It has been practiced for many years. Customary land tenure is built on the foundations of an African concept of land, distinguished by centrality of community, spirituality, and mutual dependence of the individual and the community. …
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Compensation assessment practices in expropriation of customary land rights in Malawi
… is normally expropriated from private and/or customary owners as government may not have it, in return for compensation to cover the expropriatory losses occasioned. Commonly, such compensation is assessed based on market value. While private land is tradable, customary land is conceptually …
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Integrating land administration systems in peri-urban customary areas in Ghana
… systems operate in many peri-urban customary areas in subSaharan Africa (Burns, 2007), yet the rationality behind them is different, and possibly conflicting (Watson, 2003). The conflicting rationalities between the dual systems have created binaries in land administration discourse. …
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The administration of customary law estates post the enactment of the reform of customary law of succession act: a case study from rural Eastern Cape, South Africa
… September 2010 brought into force the Reform of Customary law of Succession and Regulation of Related Matters Act 11 of 2009 (the Reform Act). The Act regulates the devolution of property of individuals who live according to customary law and die intestate. The notorious customary law principle …
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The Maledu and Baleni cases impact on customary communities vulnerability to expropriation
In 2018, two disputes between customary communities and entities seeking to exploit mineral resources came before the courts - Maledu v Itereleng Bakgatla Mineral Resources (Pty) Limited (“Maledu”) and Baleni v Minister of Mineral Resources (“Baleni”). In both cases, the courts found in favour of …
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A framework for guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts
… to be failing, and land tenure reform in customary contexts is the least well-addressed component of land reform. To address this failure, a framework for guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts is developed. Using a research synthesis methodology, this …
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Unsuccessful Xhosa Male Customary Initiation: The Perceptions of Traditionally Circumcised Xhosa Men
Customary male initiation is a significant rite of passage among the Xhosa people of Southern Africa. It comprises of the surgical removal of the prepuce and other customary practices intended to transition boys into manhood. Though a valued practice among AmaXhosa, various negligent practices in …
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Women of St. Marks, Transkei : negotiating customary law, c.1940 - c.1960
This thesis explores the ways in which customary law affected the women of the St. Marks district, Transkei between 1940 and 1960. In particular, it examines how women worked within and through customary law and the customary law courts in order to obtain redress for their problems. The thesis …
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1977 protocol II additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and customary international law
… Despite such inadequate protection, however, customary international law based on State practice and opinio furls applies to such circumstances. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to ascertain the customary status of Protocol II.This thesis first examines whether customary rules had …
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Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724
My aim in this project is to demonstrate how the reconfiguration of custom in the writings of Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon opened up a new discourse of collective identity that found its most developed expression in the writings of the French and English people who first colonized North …
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The role of socioeconomic factors in customary coral reef management in Papua New Guinea
For generations, communities in the Pacific islands have employed a range of resource management techniques (including reef closures, gear restrictions, limiting entry, and the protection of spawning aggregations) to limit marine resource use. Because of their perceived potential to meet both …
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Succession in woman-to-women marriages under customary law: a study of the Lobedu Kingdom
This study looks into the ways in which official customary law addresses succession complexities and legitimacy in woman-to-woman marriages. The social, political, cultural and legal background against which these marriages are concluded show the history of succession in woman-to-woman marriages …
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Isiko Lehlathi 'The Customary Rights of the Forest': Unearthing the True Nature of Botanical Gardens
… contribution that has shaped Isiko Lehlathi (customary rites of the forest), the main goal is to re-enact the participatory activities, and interactions through design, which used to exist between people and nature. This is an attempt to break the colonial rigour to develop inclusive cultural …
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