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Research data: TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES
2009 State democracy warming up to culture: an ambivalent integration of traditional leadership into the South African governance system, 1994-2009
The focus of this paper is primarily the broad shifts that have taken place on the role of traditional leaders since the advent of democrati...
2009 Traditional leadership, democracy and human rights: a theoretical quagmire
traditional leadership in South Africa is an example of the tension that exists between democracy and human rights as defined in Eurocentric...
2008 Fifteen year review on traditional leadership: a research paper
This study looks at policy and legislative issues as reflected in the government processes in the past fifteen years with reference to tradi...
Download this report2008 The buoyancy factor: the tenacity of traditional leadership
Traditional leadership is often judged as an anomaly within a democratic system of governance. It lives in tension with the land-reform prog...