Although South Africa has taken steps to rid itself of the apartheid-era view of marriage as only heterosexual and monogamous, discrimination against religious marriages persist.
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The ALRC report made some useful recommendations about how settler law could deal more fairly with Aboriginal people by taking their traditions and customs into account.
The emergence of the restorative justice philosophy responds to the need to change South Africa’s retributive criminal justice system to accommodate African legal practices.
By challenging the courts, King Dalindyebo is testing the degree of impunity with which traditional leaders can get away.
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Director, Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, University of the Western Cape
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