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The South African system provides for the extensive recognition of a ‘customary law of the Blacks’ and for a separate system of courts to apply customary law. The Khoisan have been referred to in the past as "Bushmen" -- and when the Dutch settlers landed in South Africa in the 17th century, they called them Hottentots, a word derived from the famous clicks in their languages. Kotze. Contents.
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There is thus, in one sense, a ‘pluralist’ legal structure with not only separate laws but a separate court structure for the Blacks.
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Aboriginal Customary laws and the Criminal Justice System, The Interaction of Aboriginal Customary Laws and the Criminal Law, Legal Pluralism in the Criminal Law: Overseas Experience, 18. This Act establishes four courts whose jurisdiction extends only to Blacks.
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[1212] These courts are Chiefs Courts (s 12), Divorce Courts (s 10(1)), Commissioners Courts (s 10) and an Appeal Court for Commissioners Courts (s 13).
%PDF-1.2 %���� South Africa has a diverse legal history. The virus "lockdown put a magnifying glass on the inequality that we have inherited," said Denver Toroga, a Khoisan-language activist and poet. Quite apart from the coercive, involuntary characteristics of apartheid and the Bantustan policy, the system has many limitations.
While there is apparent flexibility in the application of custom, difficulties have arisen over which system, customary law or Roman-Dutch, should be paramount in particular cases.
Commissioners’ courts are given a wide discretion in the application of custom (s 11): Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, it shall be in the discretion of the Commissioner’s Court in all suits or proceedings between Blacks involving questions of customs followed by Blacks to decide such questions according to the Black law applying to such customs except in so far as it shall have been repealed or modified: Provided that such Black law shall not be opposed to the principles of public policy or natural justice: Provided further that it shall not be lawful for any court to declare that the custom of lobola or bogadi or other similar custom is repugnant to such principles. The ‘indigenous’ system is plainly an imposed one, dependent on the general legal system and forced to defer to it whenever conflict arises.
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Local Justice Mechanisms: Options for Aboriginal Communities, Aborigines as Officials in the Ordinary Courts. Above the chiefs’ courts in the hierarchy of Black courts are the Commissioners’ Courts.
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Conclusions and Implementation: The Way Forward? Conflicts over the Application of Custom. Siber Ink. The Transkei Constitution Act 1963, s 50, goes further than s 11 of the Black Administration Act in relation to the application of custom: In all suits and proceedings between parties involving or based ,on questions of Black custom the court shall apply the Black law applicable to such custom as far as is practicable in deciding such question, except where such custom is opposed to the principles of public policy or natural justice …. 0000001219 00000 n Other Methods of Proof: Assessors, Court Experts, Pre-Sentence Reports, Justice Mechanisms in Aboriginal Communities: Needs, Problems and Responses, 28. 798. Experts say don't panic.
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Bennett has suggested one approach: As far as possible, the court should attempt to give effect to the litigant’s expressed choice of legal system, but, in the absence of any such choice, it will be compelled to consider the facts as a whole and, after weighing them, objectively determine which legal system is favoured by the preponderance of the connecting factors.[1217]. There is, a fight of appeal to the Supreme Court (s 14) although customary law, unless specifically established in statutory form (e.g. 0000001115 00000 n In one of the grimmest episodes of colonial times, a Khoisan named Sarah Baartman was taken to Europe in the early 19th century by a British doctor and paraded as an anatomical freak -- the "Hottentot Venus," who people could see and touch for a fee. But how many Khoisan there are, in a population of 59 million, is unclear -- and their identity is also a subject of debate. All of the courts specifically created for Blacks may apply customary law. Development of the homelands areas (‘Bantustans’) adds another coercive dimension to the way customary law is recognised in South Africa.
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