South Africa Politics vs Women's Human Rights

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Length: 0:28:49
Uploaded: 12 May, 2019

Recording Date: 12 May, 2019
Recording Location: Cape Town; New York; Vancouver, and Denman Island BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #04-09 Traditional Courts Bill - Alive Again! by Erna Curry and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Program Title: WINGS #04-19 Traditional Courts Bill - Alive Again!
Description: The Helen Suzman Foundation called it "a cynical move to curry favour with traditional leaders." Two months before the May 2019 elections, the ANC-led Parliament passed - for the 3rd time - the Traditional Courts Bill that would allow chiefs of the former apartheid-established "homelands" to have legislative, executive and judicial powers all rolled into one. The women's and human rights movements have previously blocked this bill at the stage of Provincial Consultations. Now they have to do the work again.

Host(s): Erna Curry, Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Sizani Ngubane, founder of the Rural Women's Movement in Kwazulu Natal province (interviewed by Marsha Branch); Nolundi Luwaya, Researcher at the Law, Race and Gender Unit at the University of Cape Town [now director of the Land and Accountability Research Centre]; other scholars and traditional leaders.

Credits: Documentary produced for WINGS by Erna Curry, with additional recording by Marsha Branch and Frieda Werden.

Comments: For more about the Rural Women's Movement, follow @RURALWOMENSMOVEMENT on social media, or visit http://www.larc.uct.ac.za/news/update-traditional-courts-bill-tcb