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Traditional Courts 2017

Bill Number: B1-2017

Status

Bill Status

Bill

Memorandum PDF
Original [part 1]
Bill A [part 1]
Bill B [part 1]

Draft Bill

Year of publication

2016

Explanatory Summary

Published in GG 40487 of 9 December 2016

Parliamentary Documents

Date	Type	Title
2017-02-03	Briefing Paper	Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017]: Department Briefing
2018-03-20	Submission	Hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017]: Alliance for Rural Democracy
2018-03-20	Submission	Hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017]: LRC
2018-03-20	Submission	Hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017]: COSATU
2018-03-20	Submission	Hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017]: NHTL
2018-03-20	Submission	Hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017]: LARC
2018-03-20	Submission	Hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017]: CCL
2019-03-07	Committee Report	Report of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services on the Traditional Courts Bill [B1-2017], dated 6 March 2019

Further Information

Sabinet Monitoring Articles

DOJCD Provides Responses to Traditional Courts Bill		2018-05-24
Traditional Courts Bill Sent to NHTL for Comment		2017-03-07
Traditional Courts Bill Tabled in Parliament		2017-02-02
Draft Traditional Courts Bill on Track		2017-01-25

News Articles

'Bantustan Bills' are anti-democratic, says Sonke Gender Justice	IOL	2019-06-03
Proposed Traditional Courts Bill takes women's rights back a decade	The Citizen	2019-04-29
Presiding officer casts decisive vote on contested traditional courts bill	SAfrica24	2019-03-12
Traditional Courts Bill 'must deal with patriarchy', workshop hears	SAfrica24	2019-03-04
Cosatu slams ANC for scrapping gender rights clauses in new bill	The Citizen	2018-08-23
Traditional laws should be compulsory	News24	2018-03-25
New divison emerges over Traditional Courts Bill	Polity.org.za	2017-01-31
New traditional courts bill 'everyone can live with'	News24	2017-01-23
Traditional courts bill due out in January	BusinessDay	2017-01-03

Opinion Pieces

South Africa still has a long way to go to settle traditional leadership challenges	The Conversation	2019-06-23
Traditional Leadership Bill is a dangerous throwback to core principles of apartheid	Daily Maverick	2019-06-18
The 'Bantustan Bills' remain disastrously flawed	Mail & Guardian	2019-06-05
Xolobeni turns on ANC	Financial Mail	2019-05-16
Why the ANC is bent on conferring colonial and apartheid-era rights on rural chiefs	Daily Maverick	2019-04-25
The Traditional Courts Bill: A problematic piece of legislation	Politicsweb	2019-04-09
Looting of land rights continues as Parliament signs two controversial bills	City Press	2019-03-19
Vulnerable rural people at further risk as parliamentary committee adopts controversial Traditional Courts Bill	Daily Maverick	2019-03-10
Latest Traditional Courts Bill draft flouts constitutional rights even more disturbingly	Daily Maverick	2018-09-13
How MPs are pushing back against the Traditional Courts Bill	Business Day	2018-03-28
Opt-Out, Traditional Courts Bill supporters' most hated clause	Daily Maverick	2018-03-19
South Africa's Traditional Courts Bill 2.0: improved but still flawed	The Conversation	2017-04-04
Improved Traditional Courts Bill (TCB) needs enforcement mechanisms	Land and Accountability Research Centre	2017-01-31
Why I'm Cautiously Optimistic About The New Traditional Courts Bill Being Back	Huffington Post	2017-01-27
Traditional Courts Bill, ver 2017: Can 'everyone live with it'?	Daily Maverick	2017-01-23

Speeches and Statements (Non parliamentary)

Justice and Correctional Services Committee Adopts Traditional Courts Bill	Parliament	2019-03-06
Traditional Courts Bill remains problematic - Glynnis Breytenbach	Politicsweb	2017-01-24
Deputy Minister John Jeffery: Media briefing on Traditional Courts Bill	GCIS	2017-01-23

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