"When interpreting a written law, and when developing the common law or traditional customary law, every court, tribunal and forum must be guided by the spirit and objects of this Chapter"...Somehow this implies Western law as supreme and our Bantu customs and laws as subordinate.
The new constitution must do away with the term 'customary law' or 'common law'. Our laws and customs must be identified as THE LAW. Why must our marriage systems be treated by our own constitution as worthless? Same with our own methods of justice delivery.
Our ways were always superior in maintaining social order...why must they be subordinate?
We need to reawaken our Bantu consciousnesses and take back our colonized minds.
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Zimbabwe Civic Action Support Group. Campaigning non-violently for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe.
WHO'S LAW IS IT?
"When interpreting a written law, and when developing the common law or traditional customary law, every court, tribunal and forum must be guided by the spirit and objects of this Chapter"...Somehow this implies Western law as supreme and our Bantu customs and laws as subordinate.
The new constitution must do away with the term 'customary law' or 'common law'. Our laws and customs must be identified as THE LAW. Why must our marriage systems be treated by our own constitution as worthless? Same with our own methods of justice delivery.
Our ways were always superior in maintaining social order...why must they be subordinate?
We need to reawaken our Bantu consciousnesses and take back our colonized minds.