When the government of South Africa decided in 1991 the abolish the racial land laws but not to take steps to redress the effects that those laws had had, new impetus was given to the idea of creating a land claims court. This idea has been discussed over the past several months by a ...
South Africa’s national election was held on May 29, 2024. It was the toughest one yet for the African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party since 1994, which won only about 40 percent of the vote.
. The National Assembly voted for Ramaphosa to continue as president on May 22, and he was sworn in three days later. In the following days he announced his new cabinet, in which women were appointed to half of the posts; this was the first gender-balanced cabinet in South African ...
when the U.S.Supreme Courtrejected African Americancitizenshipclaims. TheDred Scott decisionstated that the country’s founders had viewed Blacks as soinferiorthat they had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” This ruling—by declaring unconstitutional theMissouri Compromise(1820)...
…to the end of the South African system of racial segregation known as apartheid. The resistance movement began in the 1940s and intensified in the 1950s and ’60s, when civil rights as a concept was sweeping the globe, but it was forced underground as most of its leaders were imprisoned...
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The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) is saddened by the death of Land Claims Court Judge President Fikile Bam. On behalf of the attorneys' profession, we pay tribute to a warm and humorous person, and one of the icons of the struggle for democracy and the rights of the poor and dis...
(lucerne), rye, flaxseed,wheat, and soybeans. Cash-crop farming prevails to the north, with reliance on wheat and other small-grain crops. In the south, a more diversified farming economy exists, dominated by livestock and animal feeds, and income from livestock and livestock products has ...
"The African National Congress government and their allies' decision to take Israel to the International Court of Justice has brought us to a place where, like the time of Queen Esther in the Bible, we cannot keep silent," said Tshego Motaung, head of the Healing of the Nations prayer for...
RAMALLAH, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Saturday urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to expedite proceedings on a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of "genocidal" acts in the Gaza Strip.