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- Abolition of Racially-Based Land Measures Bill, 197
- Accompong, 230, 232, 236
- Adabre, Donald, 50
- Adu, A. L., 53–54
- Adusei, Richard, 63
- African Advisory Council, 251
- African National Congress (ANC), 178, 182, 193, 195, 203, 205, 214, 277
- Agyeman, Nana Fredua, 8
- AIDS, 25, 45, 115, 269
- Akan democracy, 54–55, 240
- Akan folktales, 56–57
- Akuoko, Kwaku, 50
- Albasini, Joaõ, 129
- Amakhosi (appointed chiefs), 267–68, 270, 276–77, 284 See also inkosi; chiefs
- Ampem II, Agyewodin Nana Adu, 55
- ANC. See African National Congress (ANC)
- Annan, Kofi, 33
- apartheid, 138, 175, 190, 193
- Arhin, Kwame, 33, 41
- aristocrats, 2–3
- Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
- Asafo, 55, 240
- Asante, 9, 87, 103
- Asantehene, 20, 32, 41, 45–46, 50, 60, 98–99, 231
- Ashanti Administration Ordinance 1902, 103
- Ashanti Ordinance 1935, 104
- Ashanti Protectorate and the Northern Territories, 95, 103
- Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs, 47
- Ashun, Percy, 43
- Assembly of First Nations, 26
- Association of Commonwealthe Universities (ACU), 47
- Association of Regional Councils in Kwazulu-Natal, 283
- Atta, Osabarima Kwasi, 43
- authochthony, 138, 141
- Ayeni, Victor, 296
- Ba, Amadou Hampâté, 36
- BaFokeng people, 187
- Balandir, Georges, 39
- Bambaras, 36
- Bantu Administration Act, 190
- Bantu Authorities Act, 124, 141, 178–79, 193, 208–9
- Basotho, 147, 163, 168
- Basotho National Party (BNP), 154, 165
- Basutoland Congress Party (BCP), 157
- Basutoland Crown Protectorate, 149
- Battestini, Simon, 57
- BCP. See Basutoland Congress Party (BCP)
- Bechuanaland Protectorate, 252
- best practice, 2, 291
- Betterment Plan, 128, 189, 191
- Bhunga, 184, 190
- elected candidates, 188
- Biyela, B. B., 22, 264
- Black diaspora, 37
- Blair, Tony, 9
- BNP. See Basotho National Party (BNP)
- Boafo II, Barima Asiedu, 45
- Boatema–Afrakoma II, Nana, 60–61
- Boer Republics, 182, 185–87
- Bond of 1844, 87, 96
- Botswana, 21, 23, 249–62
- Botswana Democratic Party
- reliance on support of traditional leaders, 253
- Botswana House of Chiefs, 2, 21–22, 289
- Botswana National Front, 253
- Britain
- British colonial state. See colonial state
- British House of Lords, 9, 155, 255; as British House of Chiefs, 9
- British Togoland, 95
- Brong-Ahafo Region, 101
- Brong-Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, 50
- burials, 102
- Bush, George W.
- legitimacy, 7
- Busia, K. A., 53
- Business Day, 274
- Butha Buthe, 149
- Buthelezi, Chief, 197, 205, 214, 271
- Butler, Lt. Gen. William, 183
- Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, 27, 119
- Canada, 25
- Cape. See Eastern Cape Province
- Cauvin, Jean, 56
- Cemeteries Ordinance, 103
- Césaire, Aimé, 37
- Chamba, Paramount Chief, 4
- Charles Town, 232
- Chief Native Commissioners, 129
- “Chief-State Relations in Ghana” (Ray), 42
- chiefs, 5, 10, 84, 124, 178. See also chieftaincy; traditional authorities; traditional leaders;
- African past, 127, 130, 137
- under apartheid (see under traditional authorities)
- appointed, 176–78, 267–68, 276–77, 284
- authority, 53, 124, 147
- as autochthonous, 141
- as autonomous, 138–39, 141
- at centre (hub), 154
- cultural role, 3, 23, 59, 129, 135
- deposing, 182–83, 191, 214, 253–54
- destoolment, 95
- development (See under traditional authorities)
- domination over women and juniors, 136
- duties, 54
- election by community elders and councillors, 124
- enstoolment and/or enskinning, 46
- as father figure, 63, 93, 130, 150
- female chiefs, 161
- impeachment, 55, 95
- as intermediaries, 43, 51
- kinship model (See under chieftaincy)
- as law-giver and judge, 59, 63, 128, 130
- leadership in mobilizing public opinion, 261
- link, people and gods, 63
- as mediators in conflicts, 43
- military leader, 59, 63, 128
- need for reconceptualization, 18
- “non-political” power, 18, 125
- official functions, 46, 58
- opinion leaders, 45
- oppression, 128
- as outdated forms of authority, 146
- passin, 264–285
- patrilineal model of authority, 149
- as pejorative term, 178
- as personal leader, 150
- prestige and popularity, 185
- public morality, 17
- rallying points of resestance to colonialism, 3
- relationship with people, 147, 152, 179–80, 182, 192
- stigma attached to term, 2
- traditional authority in tribal membership, 253
- unpopular, 57
- usufructory rights, 164
- variety amongst, 134
- various images, 34
- voting, 282
- as warrior, 53, 130
- wealth, 53
- Whites as, 129
- Zulu, 22, passim 264–285
- Chiefs’ Ordinance 1904, 97–98
- chiefship. See chieftaincy
- chieftaincy, 9, 33, 41–42, 58, 84, 124, 188, 235, 251, 268. See also chiefs; traditional authorities
- advisory role, 126
- as African tyranny, 126
- an anomaly, 131
- under apartheid (See under traditional authorities)
- assertion of local autonomy, 127
- bureaucratization, 125, 141, 156
- compatibility with democratic local governance (See democratic structures)
- constitutionalization (See under traditional authorities)
- contemporary needs, 163
- as different stages of political evolution, 126
- dynastic model, 147
- focus for ethnic and local identity, 136, 148
- future of, 64
- gender inequality, 161
- guarantee of, 101
- hereditary base, 147, 156, 232
- hierarchical structure, 147, 150
- historical precedents, 163
- as hub of wheel, 148, 154
- influence of colonial and post-colonial state, 10, 87–88, 99–100, 113, 146, 149, 152, 154, 166
- as irrelevant, 128
- kinship model, 150–53, 161
- land and livestock as key issues, 163
- legitimacy (See under traditional authorities)
- link to both people and land, 129
- under military governments, 157
- neo-African system of, 232
- popular support for, 169
- re-emergence, 142
- re-evaluation, 47
- research in, 13
- respect for, 61
- similarity to NGO, 135–36
- as undemocratic, 146, 157
- Chieftaincy Act 1961, 99
- Chieftaincy Act 1971, 100, 109, 111
- Chieftaincy (Amendment) Act 1963, 99
- Chieftaincy (Amendment) law 1985, 101
- Chieftaincy (Membership of Regional Houses of Chiefs) (Amendment) Instrument, 101
- Chieftainship Act (Botswana), 253
- Chieftainship Act of 1968, 155–56
- Chieftainship Act of 1978 (Kingdom of Lesotho), 154, 158
- Christaller, J. G., 53
- Churcher, Christine, 43
- circumsion schools, 135–36
- Civic Associations, 194
- class, 71, 154
- clenched fist, 175–76, 194
- CLGF. See Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF)
- Codesa. See Conference for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
- College of Chiefs, 157
- colonial encounter, 179–84
- colonial state, 3, 5, 9–10, 17, 19, 21, 28n, 83–121, 235, 251
- Africa’s legacy of, 19, 175
- attempt to erase pre-colonial past, 37
- attempts to transform chiefs into functionaries, 146
- co-opting legitimacy of traditional leaders, 113
- direct control over traditional leaders, 98
- exploitation, 179, 181
- indirect rule, 99, 141, 176, 179, 183, 232, 252
- legitimacy rooted in imperial power and racism, 5
- recognition of traditional leaders in local governance, 95
- recognition of traditional leaders’ legitimacy, 97
- reserves, 183
- Commission on Gender Equality, 272
- Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF), 14, 289, 291, 295
- Commonwealth Roundtable, 1995, 14
- Communal Property Associations (CPA), 213, 215–16
- Communal Property Associations Act 1996, 200
- community councils, 159–60
- community ownership, 293
- community participation, 276
- complementary sovereignty, 21, 238–44; See also divided sovereignty
- compulsory unpaid labour, 103, 176
- Conference for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), 196, 205
- “Conference on the Contribution of Traditional Authority ...Strategies for Africa,” 13, 41
- Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 272
- Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa. see Contralesa
- Constitution of the Fourth Republic 1992, 42
- Contralesa, 2, 124, 126, 134, 196, 205, 210, 212–14, 216–18, 271, 274
- Convention People’s Party (CPP), 11, 88, 95, 104
- Coon Come, Matthew, 26
- council system, 184–85
- Crothers, Charles, 17, 69
- cultural renaissance, 34, 37
- Currie, Melvin, 236
- Customary Law, 42
- customary laws, 102, 110
- Dadié, Bernard, 37
- Dadson, Frederika, 60
- The Daily Graphic, 37–38, 45–46, 51
- Daily News, 270, 272, 274
- Dalindyebo, paramount Chief Buyelekhaya, 218
- Dalindyebo, Sabata, 178, 193
- Damas, Léon G., 37
- de Klerk, F. W., 197
- decentralization, 43, 296
- decentralized despotism, 175–77
- Demarcation Act, 1998, 266
- Demarcation Board, 270–71
- demarcation process, 264–65, 273–74, 277, 284
- democracy, 5, 7, 10, 91, 104, 126, 129, 146, 155–57, 211, 220, 257, 273. See also elections
- democratic structures
- Department of Land Affairs (DLA), 199–201, 209, 212, 215, 218
- Department of Native Affairs, 191
- development, 17, 113, 115, 207, 276, 289
- Development Facilitation Act, 203
- dictatorship, 63
- Diop, David, 37
- District Administration, 260–61
- District and Town Councils, 257, 261
- District Assemblies, 106
- District Councils, 22, 184, 203, 252, 254, 257, 261, 264–68, 277, 283
- District Development Committee (DDC), 165
- chiefs participation, 259
- divided legitimacy. See legitimacy, divided
- divided sovereignty, 15, 17, 21, 28n, 84–121 passim, 238–45 passim. See also complementary sovereignty
- DLA. See Department of Land Affairs (DLA)
- Doma, 36
- Donkoh, Wilhelmina, 60
- donor agencies
- Dubulingqanga, Chief, 216–18
- legal action, 219
- durbar grounds, 58
- dyarchy, 88, 95, 99, 104
- Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), 14
- female chiefs, 161. See also queenmothers
- festivals, 46, 52, 58
- Finkielkraut, Alain, 35
- First Nations Governance Institute, 26
- First Republic, 1960-66, 88
- First-Time people, 233
- folktales, 56–57
- forest conservation, 102
- Foucault. M., 88–89
- Fourth Republic, 88, 106–7
- franchise, 187, 190
- Free Press, 45
- funerals, 46–47, 61, 111
- Gando, 36
- garrison politics, 240, 242
- Gaseitsiwe, Chief
- elected to parliament, 253
- gender issues, 26, 51, 115, 137, 161
- Ghana, 11, 17, 21, 23, 33–67, 84–121
- Ghana National House of Chiefs, 2
- authority to advise government, 25. See also House of Chiefs system
- Ghanaian Chronicle, 45
- Ghanaian press, 34, 37
- The Ghanian Chronicle, 37–38
- Glen Grey Act, 188–89, 194
- liability of forfeiture, 184
- globalization, 127, 296
- Gold Coast, 95–96, 98, 230
- Gold Coast Native Jurisdiction Ordinance 1883, 96
- Golden Stool of Asante, 46, 49
- governance, 15, 26, 102, 114, 234, 275, 289
- government
- grassroots, 92, 187
- Gwadiso, Chief, 213, 216
- Hailey, Lord, 96–97
- Hammond-Tooke, W. D., 125, 185, 193
- Hamnett, I., 150, 152
- Harare Declaration, 296
- health, 115
- heredity, 147, 156, 232
- Hermansberg Mission Society v. Commissioner of Native Affairs and Darius Mogale, 181, 185
- HIV-AIDS, 8, 25, 45, 115, 269
- Holomisa, Patekile, 125, 129, 216–17
- House of Chiefs system, 17, 84, 88, 94, 101, 106–7, 109, 112, 208, 212
- House of First Peoples, 23
- House of Lords in Great Britain, 9, 155, 255
- House of Traditional Leaders, 2, 114–15, 206, 210, 271, 274, 281
- functions, 282
- House of Traditional Leaders in Bishop, 212, 214, 217
- House of Traditional Leaders in the Eastern Cape, 212, 217–18
- Hughes, Langston, 37
- human rights, 34, 124, 129–30, 219, 295
- Hut tax, 251
- IASIA, ii, iii, iv, vii–ix, 13–15
- IDRC. See also International Development Research Centre of Canada
- IFP. See Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
- immunization campaigns, 47
- inculturation, 58
- Independent on Saturday, 271
- indirect rule, 99, 141, 176, 179, 183, 232, 252
- failure in Jamaica, 235
- Induna, 124, 135–36, 144n, 276
- Ingonyama Board, 281
- Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), 22, 196–97, 205, 212, 270–71, 275, 277
- support for traditional authorities, 195
- Inkosi, 277. See also amakosi; chiefs
- Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 13
- integral state, 238
- Integrated Development Plan, 277
- International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), ii, iii, iv, vii–ix, 13, 15
- International Development Research Centre of Canada. See also IDRC; 13, 27, 64, 67, 116, 143, 163, 223, 262
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 85
- international trends, 296
- kgotla, 115, 252, 257, 289
- Khaketla, B., 155
- Khama, Sir Seretse, 253
- Kindah tree, 230–32
- Kingdom of KwaZulu, 282
- kings, 2–3, 84, 98, 148, 155, 268, 281–82
- Kromanti culture, 230, 237
- Kronama, Obaapanyin Yaa, 12
- Kufuor, President John, 86, 108
- Kumasi Public Health Board Ordinance, 103
- Kwanaloga, 283
- Kwarteng, Nana Serwaah, 61
- KwaZulu-Natal, 22, 128, 271, 273, 275
- KwaZulu-Natal House of Traditional Authorities, 212
- labour tax, 184
- land, communal, 181, 189, 200–202
- land, tribal, 134, 217, 254, 271
- Land Act of 1979 (Kingdom of Lesotho), 156, 164
- land administration, 156, 197, 202
- land allocation, 22, 160, 194, 254, 281
- Land Boards, 257–58, 261
- Land Committees, 164
- land ownership, 70, 181, 212–13, 278, 280
- land purchase and sale, 183–84, 186–87, 279
- land reform program, 174, 269
- Land Regulations 1980 (Kingdom of Lesotho), 164
- Land Rights Bill
- implications for traditional authorities, 202
- land tax, 278
- land tenure, 19, 161, 184, 189, 199, 212, 279
- land values, 25
- landscape
- faith in, 140
- Laws of Lerotholi, 156
- legal pluralism, 17, 232–33, 237, 247n
- legitimacy, 9, 42, 141, 146, 243, 264
- American presidents, 7, 29n
- from ancestry or from popular support, 70
- based on democracy, 91
- based on nationalist struggle, 91
- chiefs, 9, 124–25, 146, 234–35
- citizen withdrawal of, 9
- colonial roots, 89–90
- cooption of, 113
- cultural, 93
- customary law and usage, 102
- different bases of, 90
- differently rooted, 3, 5, 17–18, 22, 25, 41, 93
- divided, 5, 15, 17, 28n, 41–42, 83–121
- history and religion as basis, 42
- from popular support, 180
- post-colonial roots, 5, 9, 17–19, 90
- pre-colonial roots, 9, 15, 17–19, 25, 84, 113, 233
- of self-governance, 233
- state recognition, 234
- of traditional leaders, 14, 97–98, 103, 106, 113
- Lekhanya, Major General, 157
- Lesotho, 18
- Basotho, 147, 156, 163–64, 168
- chieftaincy in, 146–71
- government intervention seen to favour wealthy, 167
- government regulation on use of grazing land, 167
- intelligentsia, 158
- intrusion of colonial settlers, 149–50
- land allocation, 160, 163–64, 166
- livestock economy, 163, 166–67
- placing system, 151
- rich vs. poor stockholders, 167–68
- traditional and modern governments evolving together, 146
- Lesotho Evangelical Church, 163
- Lesotho National Livestock Task Force, 168
- liberal welfare state, 34
- local government, 19, 85, 87, 89, 93, 159, 175, 184, 200, 264
- Local Government Act, 105, 160, 204
- localism, 130
- Lugard, Frederick, 126, 141
- Luthuli, Albert, 193
- Malele, Chief, 131
- Malingoaneng, 153
- Maloka, T. A., 207
- Mamdani, Mahmood, 126, 175–76, 194, 221–22
- Mandela, Nelson, 124, 193
- Manuh, Takyiwaa, 61
- Marcel Mauss Conference of the Société des Africanistes, 39
- Maroons, 19–21. See also Jamaica
- as anti-colonial tribes, 233
- cultural uniqueness, 229
- dynamic organization, 229
- fidelity to African cultural principles, 229
- freedom struggle, 237
- jural corporateness, 230–32
- law, 237
- neo-African identity, 230
- peace treaty, 232, 236–37
- pressure to integrate into national state, 238–39
- resistance against British, 228
- self-governance, 244
- sovereignty, 233, 235
- symbolic landscape of meanings, 230
- tradition of self-determination, 233
- West African structures, 244
- marronage, 228
- Masego, Chief George, 132, 134
- mass mobilization, 194, 196
- Matanzima, Chief Ngangomblaba, 213
- Matanzima, K. D., 193
- Mbambazela, Mr., 216–17
- Mbeki, Goven, 178, 184, 187, 190–91, 193, 196
- Mbeki, Thabo, 213
- on traditional leaders, 271
- McCaskie, Tom C., 231
- Meyer, Roelf, 214
- migrant workers, 195
- Millennium SYMONS Award, 48
- mining industry, 163
- The Mirror, 37–38, 45
- missionaries, 150, 163, 178, 183, 186, 192
- modern nation state. See post-colonial state
- Mokhehle, Ntsu, 155, 157
- Mokhotlong, 149
- Moletele, Chief, 132–33
- monarchy, 2, 7, 97
- Moore Town, 232
- morena. See chiefs; chieftaincy
- Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho, 147, 149–50
- Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho, 155
- Mtshali, Lionel, 271, 274
- Municipal Council Ordinance 1953, 104
- Municipal Demarcation Board, 282
- Municipal Structures Act, 266–67, 274
- Municipal Structures Second Amendment Bill, 272
- Natal, 182
- Natal Mercury, 274
- National and Regional Houses of Chiefs tasks, 42
- National Council of Traditional Leaders, 114–15, 206, 212
- National House of Chiefs, 2, 11, 13, 45, 109–10, 114
- National Liberation Council (NLC), 88, 105
- withdrew recognition from chiefs, 100
- National Party, 178, 190, 197, 205, 214
- National Redemption Council (NRC), 88
- Native Administration Act, 188
- Native Administration Ordinance for the Gold Coast Colony 1927, 97, 102–3, 107
- Native Administration Proclamation, 252
- formal recognition of tribal chiefs, 251
- Native Affairs Act, 187
- Native Authority (or clenched fist), 175–76
- Native Authority Ordinances, 98, 103
- Native Courts Proclamation, 252
- Native Jurisdiction Ordinances, 96–97, 102–3, 107
- Native Land Act 1936, 189
- Native Representative Council, 190
- Native State prisons, 102
- Native Tribunal Proclamation, 252
- Natives Land Act 1936, 188, 197
- natural rulers, 2
- Nault, Robert, 26
- Négritude poets, 37
- Neighbourhood Watch, 47
- neo-colonialism, 17, 37
- neo-traditional
- as creation of colonial or post-colonial states, 3
- NGOs, 43, 135
- Ngwenyathi, Chief, 217
- Nkrumah, Kwame, 11, 95, 101, 104–6, 234
- Nkwankwaa of the Asante, 240
- nobles, 2
- Nonkonyana, Chief, 216–17
- NP government, 196
- Ntsebeza, Lungisile, 19, 173, 217
- Numapau, Odeneho Oduro, 290
- Obote, Milton, 11
- Offori Atta, Osagefuo, 44, 288
- Oguaa Traditional Council, 43
- Okyenhene, King of Akyem Abuakwa, 8, 44, 288, 292. See also Offori Atta
- oral tradition, 37, 52, 150
- Orange Free State, 182
- Osei Bonsu II, Daasebre, 62
- Osei Tutu II, 6, 32, 41, 46–47
- Owusu, Opanin, 60
- Owusu-Sarpong, Christiane, 15, 31
- Pact Government, 188
- parallel rule, 252
- Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, 163
- partial sovereignty, 233
- partnership in local government, 289
- patriarchal authority, 153, 163
- Peires, J. B., 179–81
- People’s Defence Committees, 105
- permission to occupy (PTO), 188–89, 197–98, 280
- Phondoland, 184–85
- Pim Report of 1933, 149
- The Pioneer, 38, 45, 47–48
- plantocracy, 228, 233
- PNDC. See Provisional National Defence Council
- political and legal pluralism, 15, 34, 39–42
- political decentralization, 296
- poor communication, co-ordination and co-operation, 208–9, 220–21
- post-apartheid South Africa, 199–225
- conflicting constitutional principles, 19
- district model, 203–5
- efforts to retain and dismantle clenched fist, 176
- land administration, 201
- land tenure policy, 174, 199–202
- local government policy, 201–2
- recognition of unelected traditional authorities, 177, 195
- traditional authorities in local government, 205–8
- post-apartheid South-Africa
- development and democratization, 19
- post-colonial state, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17–19, 23, 25, 37, 41–42, 84–121, 235, 252–53
- Poto, Victor, 193
- poverty, 269
- power and authority
- distinction, 233
- praise-genre, 52
- pre-colonial African past, 37
- pre-colonial institutions, 234
- pre-colonial state, 3, 5, 9, 15, 17, 21, 28n, 84–121 passim, 235, 251
- Prempeh I, Asante king, 98
- Provincial Houses of Traditional Leaders, 2, 114–15, 206, 282
- Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), 88, 105–6
- violent chieftaincy disputes, 101
- PTO. See permission to occupy (PTO)
- Public Services Commission, 112
- racism, 5
- radical pluralism, 237
- Ramaema, Colonel, 157
- Range Management Areas (RMAs), 168
- Rastafari movement, 241
- Rawlings, Fl. Lt. J. J., 41
- Ray, Donald I., 17, 34, 41–42, 83, 241, 295
- Reddy, Purshottama Sivanarian, 15, 22, 263
- Regional Authorities, 269, 281–82
- Regional Councils, 284
- Regional Houses of Chiefs, 99, 101, 105–6, 109, 112, 114–15
- Regional Police Committee, 106, 112
- Regional Prisons Service Committee, 106, 112
- Regulation of Development in Rural Areas Act, 208, 214
- republicanism, 7, 9
- reserves, 190
- Residential Environmental Bill, 198
- resurgent heritage, 15, 35–38, 46, 50
- African Cultural Renaissance movement, 34
- Rhodes, Cecil John, 184
- royal courts, 58
- royal funerals, 52
- royal ideology, 179
- royalty (Ubukhosi), 282, 284. See also amakhosi; chiefs
- Rural Development Bill, 198
- “Rural Local Governance and Traditional Leadership,” 15
- rural populace
- reliance on chiefs, 166
- sacred horn of the Akan, 232
- sacred texts
- link between living and dead, 52
- Sarpong, Nana Akuoko, 241, 244
- Sarpong, Peter K., 58
- scapegoats
- appointed headmen as, 185
- Scott’s Hall, 232
- SDI. See Spatial Development Initiatives (SDI)
- Sebotto, Kgosi Mosadi, 4
- Second Republic (1969-72), 88
- secret powers, 142
- Seepapitso IV, Chief, or Kgosi, 4, 254, 289
- Sekhukhuni, Chief, 178
- Sekonyela, Lelingoana, 153
- Senghor, Léopold Sédhar, 37
- Serafini, Shirley, 26
- Setlhare, Chief, 132, 134
- Sharma, Keshav, 21, 249
- Shepstone, Theophilus, 129
- Sherlock, Sir Philip, 243
- Smuts, Jan, 126
- social change, 289
- social levelling through free education, 55
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), 27, 116
- Solomon, Allavi, 38
- Soma, 36
- South Africa, 2, 23, 264–85. See also post-apartheid South Africa
- South African Constitution
- South African Houses of Chiefs
- authority to advise government, 25
- South African Local Government Association (SALGA), 272, 283
- South African Republic/Transvaal, 182
- sovereignty, 5, 84–85, 87, 138, 233, 235
- Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Power in West African Societies, 41
- Spatial Development Initiatives (SDI), 210, 215, 217–18
- state. See also colonial state; post-colonial state; pre-colonial state
- The Statesman, 38
- Stoeltje, Beverly, 61
- Stone, Carl, 240
- Stool and Skin Lands Committee, 109
- Sunday Tribune, 272
- support for small businesses, 270
- Supreme Court, 101
- Supreme Military Council (SMC), 88
- “Symposium on Traditional Leadership and Local Government,” 14
- TAARN. See Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN)
- Tanzania, 11
- Tapscott, C., 180, 182, 191
- TCPA. See Tshezi Communal Property Association (TCPA)
- Ten Women Achievers from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, 60
- tenure. See land tenure
- Tenure Research Core Group (TRCG), 199
- Thaba Bosiu, 160
- Thaba Tseka, 149
- Third Republic, 88, 98, 105
- Thomas, Glen, 213, 217
- Thornton, Robert, 17–18, 123
- TLCs. See Transitional Local Councils (TLC)
- tourism, 270, 279
- traditional authorities, 2–3, 5, 46, 84, 89, 97, 124, 127, 130, 177–79, 237, 275. See also chiefs; chieftaincy
- abuse of power, 192
- accountability, 19, 70, 179, 183
- active politics, 234
- administration of land, 10
- age patterns of supporters, 75
- under apartheid, 19, 99, 124, 127–28, 177–78, 190–91, 193–94, 213
- appointment, 17, 183
- authority, 22, 97, 192
- autonomy, own source of, 96
- Black Africans support, 75
- changed by colonial state, 19, 87, 99
- citizen withdrawal of legitimation, 9
- citizens wish for, 7
- collaborating on HIV-AIDS, 25
- collaboration with local governments, 43, 294
- complementarity of state and, 241
- constitutionalized, 42, 124, 130, 206, 273
- continuing existence in Britain, Canada, 7
- continuing presence during colonial and post-colonial eras, 85
- contributions to democratization, 11, 14
- corruption, 42, 178, 191, 194, 198
- culture, transmitters of, 93
- culture rooted in pre-colonial, 93
- current recognition (South Africa), 197
- current South African law, 135
- custodians of heritage and values, 51
- decline in interest in, 11
- decline in powers, functions and status, 260
- and democracy (See democratic structures)
- development, 11, 17, 22, 170, 192, 289, 293–94
- discredited, 177, 194
- education, 17, 72, 178, 192
- education of supporters, 75
- election, 17, 70, 73–76, 91
- fathers and mothers of the people, 93
- functions, 272
- governance, 41, 289
- government recognition, 274
- grassroots support, 269
- growing interest in, 14
- images from interviews, 61–63
- images of in Akan orature, 52–58
- images of in recently published books, 58–60
- important local functions, 18
- important topic in other countries, 291
- income, 73
- Indian support, 75
- intermediary between living and ancestors, 59
- land administration, 174–75, 179, 200–201, 217, 272
- land allocation, 19, 21–22, 187, 191–92
- and Land Boards, 259
- land reform, 198
- land settlement, 166
- land tenure, 175, 221
- legitimacy, 9, 18, 96, 99, 124–25, 135, 179, 193, 195, 231
- legitimacy from pre-colonial rooted culture, 92–93, 233
- legitimacy from religion (ancestors), 92
- legitimacy from state recognition or popular support, 125
- legitimacy in post-colonial state, 91
- legitimacy independent of state acts, 235
- legitimacy pool of contemporary state, 91
- legitimacy rooted outside colonial, 102
- local governance, 9–10, 13, 19, 93–95, 102, 115, 156, 169
- in local government, 9–10, 17–18, 22, 95, 99, 102, 104, 106–7, 114, 124, 146, 156, 175, 198, 205, 221, 252, 257, 281–82, 284
- and local political dynamics, 266
- own interests vs. interests of constituents, 71
- partial sovereignty, 233
- partisan politics, 17, 42, 74–76, 125, 154, 294
- peacemakers, 60
- perceived as delivering the vote, 70
- political role, 71, 73–74, 76
- post-colonial state attempt to control, 10, 19, 88, 99–100, 113, 146
- powers, 18, 21, 53–55, 125–26, 131, 137, 142, 181, 185, 194, 271, 274
- public debate about, 146
- public stances, 74–76
- recognition by post-colonial states, 17
- relationship with followers, 71, 291
- required to carry out all orders, 272
- response to post-apartheid policies, 175
- revival of interest in, 11
- rural vs. industrial, 72–73
- rural vs. urban, 75
- salaries, 183, 193, 208, 252–53, 272
- secret powers, 142
- service delivery, 289
- as significant form of authority in rural areas, 146
- social change, 289
- social role, 59
- socio-economic characteristics, 17, 71–73, 178
- sources of cultural pride, 3
- sovereignty, 231
- as spiritual leader, 63
- usufruct rights, 137
- Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN), 13–14, 41, 61, 62, 295
- Traditional Councils, 109, 112
- “Traditional Leadership and Local Governance in Social Policy in West and Southern Africa,” 13
- traditional leadership structures capacity-building support, 293
- training and infrastructural assistance, 293
- traditional rulers, 45
- legitimate moral and social leaders, 42
- traditionalists (oral tradition)
- as living memory of communitites, 36
- transhumance system (Basotho), 168–69
- Transitional Local Councils (TLCs), 203, 220
- Transitional Local Government Act of 1993, 203
- limited role for traditional authorities, 206
- Transitional Representative Councils (TrepCs), 203, 205, 213, 220
- composition and election, 204
- Transitional Rural Councils (TRCs), 203
- Transkei
- Transvaal Location Commission, 184, 186
- Treasury Proclamation, 252
- Tribal Administration, 257, 261
- Tribal Authorities, See traditional authorities
- Tribal Authority Offices, 276–77
- Tribal Councils, 252, 257
- Tribal Land Act, 258
- Tribal Treasuries, 251
- tribes, 178
- trokosi, 111
- Tshezi case study, 174–75, 218
- Tshezi communal area, 215–17, 219
- Tshezi Communal Property Association (TCPA), 215–18
- Ubukhosi, 282, 284. See also royalty; chiefs
- Uganda
- kingdoms abolished, 11
- Uganda 1967 Constitution, 11
- umbrella (kyinie)
- UN, 124, 130
- UN millennium summit, 33
- Union of South Africa, 182, 187
- United Democratic Front, 195
- United Democratic Movement of Bantu Holomisa, 214
- United States, 7
- lessons from Africa’s Houses of Chiefs, 23
- United States Senate, 255
- United Transkeian Territories General Council (UTTGC), 184
- Universal Bill of Human Rights, 124, 130, 219
- Upgrading and Land Tenure Rights Act amendment, 200
- Upgrading of Land Tenure Bill, 197–98
- urban nouveau bourgeoisie, 131
- usufruct rights, 156, 164
- Wallis, Malcolm, 18, 145
- Weber, Max, 135
- The Weekend Statesman, 38
- West Africa, 230
- White Paper of Local government, 210–11
- White Paper on Integrated Rural Development, 269
- White Paper on Land Policy (South Africa), 200
- White Paper on Land Reform (South Africa), 197
- challenges to, 198
- White Paper on Local Government, 203, 207
- White Paper on Traditional Affairs development of, 208
- White Paper on Traditional Leadership and Institutions, 271, 273
- witch camp practices, 111
- women, 111, 208
- Wool and Mohair Growers’ associations, 168
- Worker’s Defence Committees, 105
- World Bank, 47
- Wright, Carl, 14, 22, 287
- Wright, Richard, 37
- youth, 128
- Youth League, 195
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