The LRC’s regional project focuses on the protection of community rights to resources and, in particular, aims to find ways in which to improve the imbalance of power between rural communities in Africa and those interested in their resources; be they government or potential investors. The imbalance of power is not only a function of […]
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The LRC’s Constitutional Litigation Unit attorney, Wilmien Wilcomb, recently published an article in Business Day on the Traditional Courts Bill, entitled, “Restoring power or the dignity of rural people?” In it, she states that: “Opposition to the bill is largely based on the fact that it does not reflect living customary law and its participatory […]