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15 December 2025

RESEARCH: EMERGING RURAL STRUGGLES AGAINST UNELECTED TRADITIONAL LEADERS AND THE ROLE OF THE COURTS

EMERGING RURAL STRUGGLES AGAINST UNELECTED TRADITIONAL LEADERS AND THE ROLE OF THE COURTS

Lessons from rural villages of the Eastern Cape

Fani Ncapayi, May 2017

This paper reflects on the use of the legal system by rural people in their struggle for democratised rural governance and the emerging rural struggles and possibilities for rural mobilisation in South Africa’s countryside.

Download the report here: Ncapayi, F._Rural residents and democracy from below in South Africa’s former reserves_with Abstract_Edited version