It shouldn’t be possible for the state to criminally prosecute a person for exercising their legal rights. This was, however, exactly what happened to Mr Gongqose and other members of the Dwesa-Cwebe ...

In the Royal Bafokeng Nation "a king is a king by virtue of the people" (kgosi ke kgosi ka morafe). This was endorsed by the South African High Court in a decision extending the principle of direct ...

More often than not, when we think about customs and laws, we think of them as two distinct categories. Customs are encouraged, but optional: replying to an RSVP request, writing a thank-you note, ...

Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

Maria Tickle: On the program today, customary law and Anglo-Australian law; can they mix? Next week the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee is presenting recommendations to the N.T. government on ...

A new Constitutional Court judgment about the validity of customary and civil marriages has huge implications. An untold number of Black couples, married under customary law and later under civil law, ...

Papua New Guinea’s legal framework intricately weaves together common, customary, and statutory laws, with customary law often taking precedence, says Nicholas Collier Papua New Guinea's (PNG) legal ...

Prof. Michael Ntumy of the Faculty of Law, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), has urged Nigeria and other African countries not to give up in their quest to codify the customary ...