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Aninka Claassens, Haste over land rights bill not just in aid of buying votes

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/2014/04/10/haste-over-land-rights-bill-not-just-in-aid-of-buying-votes

Raymond Suttner, The persistence of the past in the present

http://www.polity.org.za/article/the-persistence-of-the-past-in-the-present-2014-03-05

Nomboniso Gasa, Who killed the Traditional Courts bill?

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/who-killed-the-traditional-courts-bill-1.1654811

Custom contested, Restitution Amendment Bill still in the NCOP

http://www.customcontested.co.za/restitution-amendment-bill-still-ncop/?utm_source=Custom+Contested+Website+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4c53541f81-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2b5c4c8a4f-4c53541f81-82822209

Mbongiseni Buthelezi, State at odds with the rights of rural people

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-02-27-state-at-odds-with-the-rights-of-rural-people/

Nomboniso Gasa, Girls’ rights are being violated

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/girls-rights-are-being-violated-1.1651307#.Uwmo7nn-vfM

The Traditional courts bill is dead!

Traditional Courts Bill is dead!

Aninka Claassens, Reviled Land act is being re-enacted

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-02-06-reviled-land-act-is-being-re-enacted

Nolundi Luwaya, TCB contradicts democracy for which rural people fought

http://www.customcontested.co.za/tcb-contradicts-democracy-rural-people-fought/?utm_source=Custom+Contested+Website+Subscribers&utm_campaign=3c6d22a6e0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2b5c4c8a4f-3c6d22a6e0-82822209

Nomboniso Gasa, To succeed Ramphele cannot afford to oversimplify race

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/to-succeed-ramphele-cannot-afford-to-oversimplify-race-1.1640499#.Uu32of3H1SU

Zuma impressed with respect shown by Venda women who lay down to show respect

Once again President Jacob Zuma illustrates that his personal views are out of line with the constitutional requirements Continue reading →

Nomboniso Gasa: Eloquent silences. Critique of National Development Plan (NDP) from gender and cultural perspective

Tara Weinberg, Re-opening restitution, election promises doomed to backfire

http://www.customcontested.co.za/re-opening-restitution-election-promises-doomed-backfire/

Percy Zvomuya, Nomboniso Gasa, long and short of the gender issue

http://mg.co.za/article/2013-11-21-nomboniso-gasa-long-and-short-of-the-gender-issue

Bill evokes ‘stooges of apartheid’ by Niren Tolsi

Unprecedented third round of hearings in North-West reject TCB.  People ask whether they are being pummelled with consultations till they agree.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/11/22/bill-evokes-stooges-of-apartheid

National Council of Provinces ignores rural voices on Traditional courts bill

http://www.customcontested.co.za/ncop-ignores-rural-voices-traditional-courts-bill-case-well-consult-change-minds/#more-752

John Wright, Power and authority in Zulu kingdom: moving beyond the stereotypes

http://www.customcontested.co.za/power-authority-zulu-kingdom-moving-beyond-stereotype/

State does not consult rural people about laws that affect them. By Mbongiseni Buthelezi

http://www.customcontested.co.za/state-consult-rural-people-laws-affect/

Advocacy for women’s land rights-plotting way forward by Frances Ann Eberhard and Tara Weinberg,

http://www.customcontested.co.za/advocacy-womens-land-rights-plotting-way-forward/

Land question in South Africa with Nomboniso Gasa, Leon Louw, Songezo Zibi and Monty Narsoo (Helen Suzman Foundation panel)

http://hsf.org.za/resource-centre/roundtable-series/issue-twenty-eight-october-2013-title-and-entitlement-the-land-question-in-south-africa/view