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Mozambique again. This is Jerel. He's a senior at Yale this year and the best darn Zulu speaker we had in class. He can also be kind of silly. I miss listening to Jerel and Abby bicker.
Mozambique
You can see the fishing traps here in Kosi Bay Lakes. Land is passed down in families, as are these fishing traps, but land is not owned by individuals or families--it is owned by the government and leased (for I think 99 years) to individuals/families. This was the traditional Zulu form of parceling out land and has been continued by the government.
Jerel playing basketball with some kids at the local high school. Zulu Hoops was a program started by an American teacher who taught there for one year as part of a Fulbright exchange program. He hoped basketball would provide the relationship between teacher and students that he needed to actually teach them something in the classroom. I hear it worked.
posted by Jessica Somewhere in the States at 8:20 PM
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I'm not sure all the details under current S. African law.
Under Zulu customary law, all land belonged to the king. He would give rights to or access to land to certain families. This was controlled through a rather extensive system of chieftaincies who answered to the king re: land tenure.
The architects of apartheid kept customary law in place in those lands they deemed "tribal," or "bantustans."
Not sure what exactly happened after 1994, but my friends are trying to "sell" their house in Manguzi but they must get permission from the local chief and the people who wish to "buy" the land must also get permission from the local chief. It sounds like a nightmare of paperwork and visits to various personages....
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