User talk:RachelB ACL2011

The africans struggled to get some form of recognition of their rights under Customary law. constantly being discontent with the solutions that "western law" was providing to them, there was a general consensus amongst africans that something had to change. When dealing with the Minister of Native affairs at the time (Shepstone)the african men sought to voice their discontent in hopes that this would trigger a change and result in the recognition of their customary laws which governed their lives. Although the the common laws in place at the time were used by the colonialists to the detriment of the Africans, the africans were nonetheless willing to be subjected to it in order for them to continue having this discourse and making their grievences heard.Africans continued to play different roles in order to avoid the "monologue of coersion". The results of africans having a voice, small and as insignificant as it may have been aided in the recognition of customary law once the colonial powers had lost control. The result of this long and hard struggle is that today Customary law is recognised and protected by the South African Constitution as well as statues (subject to the understanding that Constitutional values reign supreme over all other laws).

RachelB ACL2011 (talk) 09:32, 14 March 2011 (UTC)