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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mahonisi Traditional Authority.JPG
  • Phieleiciano Chebole, Mothlabe Traditional Healer.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0065.JPG
  • Mhuit Pilane and mother Mary who are leading the fight to form their own Mothlabe Traditional Authority.<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim has not been processed. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0087.JPG
  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim has not been processed. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0069.JPG
  • Mhuit Pilane and mother Mary who are leading the fight to form their own Mothlabe Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0099.JPG
  • Mary Pilane who with her son Mhuti are leading the fight to form their own Mothlabe Traditional Authority.<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim has not been processed. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Restitution_0089.JPG
  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0082.JPG
  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0081.JPG
  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0079.JPG
  • The mine uses water from Mothlabe's land and pays compensation to the Traditional Authority yet the money does not come to Mothlabe.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0078.JPG
  • Traditional Herero woman in full traditional dress, Purros, Kaokoland. Northern Namibia..© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
    Nam402.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0023.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa's wife preparing dinner.<br />
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Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0022.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa's wife preparing dinner.<br />
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Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0021.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0011.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0007.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0006.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0005.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0002.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0018.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0014.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0013.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0012.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0010.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0004.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
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Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0001.JPG
  • Gladys Mangope teacher at Kgalatlowe High School. The school has no money for maintenance, its a science school but has no laboratories and only 14 computers for it's 293 students.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0036.JPG
  • Kgalatlowe High School has no money for maintenance, its a science school but has no laboratories and only 14 computers for it's 293 students.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0026.JPG
  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0112.JPG
  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0108.JPG
  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0107.JPG
  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0101.JPG
  • Kenny, Community Volunteer-  "Mothlabe is an affected area so the village must benefit." <br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0084.JPG
  • Patricia Pilane- Mothclabe Community Secretary.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0083.JPG
  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0063.JPG
  • Dora Seko like many others in the village lives in a home with no sanitation or electricity. <br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0061.JPG
  • Grandmother Martha Lufu relies on her state pension of R1060 per month to support her family of 11.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0058.JPG
  • Grandmother Martha Lufu relies on her state pension of R1060 per month to support her family of 11.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0056.JPG
  • Kgalatlowe High School has no money for maintenance, its a science school but has no laboratories and only 14 computers for it's 293 students.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0022.JPG
  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0018.JPG
  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0017.JPG
  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0009.JPG
  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0005.JPG
  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0002.JPG
  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0003.JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0015.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa's wife preparing dinner.<br />
<br />
Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0020.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0003.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0019.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0017.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0016.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0009.JPG
  • Mr Mabasa is one of the 22 million South Africans living in rural areas under the governance of a traditional authority. He has kept a field for 20 years in a former apartheid homeland now governed by a Traditional Authority. He received a letter from the Traditional Authority saying he was going to be evicted from this field as it was needed to make way for housing plots.  It was not until he got legal representation from the Legal Resources Centre that he was offered any form of compensation.<br />
<br />
Limpopo, South Africa.<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Mr Mabasa's Field_0008.JPG
  • Community meeting that had a court interdict issued against it.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0048.JPG
  • Community meeting that had a court interdict issued against it.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0046.JPG
  • Community meeting that had a court interdict issued against it.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0045.JPG
  • Kgalatlowe High School has no money for maintenance, its a science school but has no laboratories and only 14 computers for it's 293 students.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0029.JPG
  • Kgalatlowe High School has no money for maintenance, its a science school but has no laboratories and only 14 computers for it's 293 students.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0020.JPG
  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0102.JPG
  • Community consultation with the Legal Resources Centre .<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0100.JPG
  • Mhuti Pilane’s late father submitted the claim in 1998. He has been chosen by the Mothclabe community to continue the restitution claim and lead the process of fighting to become an independent authority.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0092.JPG
  • Dora Seko like many others in the village lives in a home with no sanitation or electricity. <br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
<br />
Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
<br />
©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Waiting for Resitution_0062.JPG
  • Grandmother Martha Lufu relies on her state pension of R1060 per month to support her family of 11.<br />
<br />
Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Unemployment in the village is high especially amongst school leavers. Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Kgalatlowe High School has no money for maintenance, its a science school but has no laboratories and only 14 computers for it's 293 students.<br />
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Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mothlabe is a small community in the midst of the Platinum belt North of Rustenburg. During the apartheid era they were forced under the rule of a neighbouring Traditional Authority and the village boundaries redrawn.  In the late 1990’s they submitted a claim for land restitution but the claim came back as a failure but no reasons where given. They have since appealed but heard nothing. In 2004, a platinum mine began operating on the land in question and it’s profits have been used to develop other villages. When the Mothclabe community proposed independence by forming their own Traditional Authority they were issued with a court interdict preventing them from holding meetings and using the term ‘Mothlabe Traditional Authority.’  The Legal Resources Centre has since successfully defended them in court against the interdict. Meanwhile Mothlabe remains poor and restitution of their land is no closer.  <br />
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Mothlabe, North West Province, South Africa. 2011<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
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Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
These photographs were taken at a community meeting with the Legal Resources Centre for legal advice regarding the practicalities of breaking way and forming their own Traditional Authority.<br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Traditional Himba woman, Purros, Kaokoland. Northern Namibia..© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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  • Traditional Himba women, Purros, Kaokoland. Northern Namibia.
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  • Young traditional Himba children, Purros, Kaokoland. Northern Namibia..© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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  • A traditional Himba woman stands next to a modern vehicle in the Kaokoland area of Northwestern Namibia, Africa.
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  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
<br />
Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Mahonisi is a Shangan and Tsonga community in rural Limpopo. Their village is administered under a Traditional Authority that charges levies to them for letters of recognition so that they can access government services such as birth, marriage and death certificates. Other South African citizens not living under Traditional Authorities do not need to pay levies for these services and documents. <br />
<br />
Like many communities across the South Africa the Mahonisi community is frustrated with the lack of basic service delivery in their village. They do not know where the money they spend on levies goes. <br />
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Mahonisis Village, Gazankulu, Limpopo, South Africa<br />
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©Zute & Demelza Lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre
    Tribal Levies- Undemocratic powers o...JPG
  • Grandmother Martha Lefu's state pension of R1060 per month is the only source of income to provide for her extended family. Like many they are on a waiting list for a government RDP house but feel ignored by their traditional authority. Mothlabe village. Pilane.
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  • A traditional Healer from a village near to Bwindi National Park. .Uganda, Africa.© Demelza Cloke
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  • A traditional village atmosphere along the main road north from Ilha De Mocambique..Northern Mozambique, Africa.© Demelza Cloke
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  • El-Moro Tribe, Loyangalani Village, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya, Southern East Africa...Women from the Traditional El-Molo tribe walk down to the waters edge of Lake Turkana also known as the vast and and yet totally barren, Jade Sea in Northern Kenya...© Demelza Cloke.DVD0001.....
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  • Traditional housing in South Horr, Northern Kenya. Kenya,  East Africa.© Demelza Cloke
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  • A small traditional village in Damaraland. Namibia..© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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  • A small traditional village in Damaraland. Namibia..© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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  • A small traditional village in Damaraland. Namibia..© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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  • A small traditional village in Damaraland, Namibia.© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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  • Traditional Himba woman, Purros, Kaokoland. Northern Namibia..© Zute and Demelza Lightfoot.www.lightfootphoto.com
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