User talk:Sindiso ACL2011

AmyEA ACL2011 (talk) 07:54, 10 March 2011 (UTC)Edit Summary - As a member of Group#1's editing team I read the following articles and legislation:“Creating the Discourse: Customary Law and Colonial Rule in South Africa” ,“Customary Law: The Theory of Decentralized Despotism”,"Coercion and Conversation" & Law of Evidence Amendment Act, s1. Once receiving the summaries from the group I co-edited the first two articles and sourced the citations. After reviewing the final version with my co-editors I posted the summary to the wikipedia page. DiannaKB ACL2011 (talk) 17:21, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Edit Summary - I was a member of Group 1. I read most of the following article: “Creating the Discourse: Customary Law and Colonial Rule in South Africa” (Mamdani) and summarized in detail the first two sections of that article for the group. I then forwarded my summary to our subgroup editor who used it in a summary of the whole article. This was then forwarded to our Group 1 editing team. DanielRB ACL2011 (talk) 18:30, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

KhairiyahA ACL2011 (talk) 18:52, 9 March 2011 (UTC) I am member of Group 1. I have read the following article: Chanock, M, Chapter 11, "Creating the discourse: Customary law and colonial rule in South Africa". I have summarised the section on the recognition of African marriages in Natal in detail (pages 261-263). I then forwarded my summary to my sub-group editor who used it to compile a complete summary of the article. My sub-group editor forwarded the final summary of the article to the Group 1 editing team who pksted the summary on the wikipedia page.

I am member of Group 5. I have read the following article: Comaroff, John and Simon Roberts (1981) Chapter 3: “The Normative Repertoire”. I summarised the article’s authors’ opinions and findings around and on the various case studies. I then passed my summary on to my partner (Ghassan Sader) who added his part and referenced the summary. He then sent it to our sub-group editor who posted the entire summary of the article (once she had edited it) onto the Wiki page. LaurenSR ACL2011 (talk)

I am a member of Group 3 and the first sub-group which read Anne Griffiths 'Legal Pluralism'. Each member of the group made an individual summary of the entive article and then sent it to me. I then compiled a collective summary from the sub-group's submissions. Finally I sent this compiled version to our group's over-all editor and she put together the Wikipedia page. [User:JanineBH]JanineBH ACL2011 (talk) 20:25, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

I am member of Group 5. I have read the following article: Comaroff, John and Simon Roberts (1981) Chapter 3: “The Normative Repertoire”. I summarised the article’s authors’ opinions and findings around and on the various case studies. My partner ( Lauren Richards) had done the summary to which I added my part.I also edited and referenced the article.I then sent it to our sub-group editor who posted the entire summary of the article (once she had edited it) onto the Wiki pageGhassanFS ACL2011 (talk) 21:45, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

I am a member of Group 5 and was responsible for reading Mnisi Weeks 'Legal Pluralism Theory and Its Relevance to the African Context'. I summarized the reading, taking note of the author's main theoretical distinctions and made notes in order to discuss the reading with the group. The group met, discussed the reading and compiled and edited the summaries in order to create a summary for the Wikipedia entry. StevenW ACL2011 —Preceding undated comment added 22:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC).

I am a member of Group 2. I read all the readings assigned to that group, focusing particularly on Alexcor Ltd and Another v the Richtersveld Community and Others. I then collaborated on the summary of that case with two colleagues. We produced a number of drafts before deciding on a final version. Furthermore, I was responsible for most of the general editing for Group 2.SimoneF ACL2011 (talk) 07:48, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I am a member of Group 1. Our group decided to divide the work by sources at first. I was in the sub group that summarized and interpreted, in the context of historical recognition, the piece by Chanock. I was specifically looking at the recognition of customary law in Transvaal. Then I was assigned the role of sub editor for our sub group. I then edited all the group’s pieces to create a smooth, coherent and consistent piece on Chanock’s work which reflected our own insights and what we have learned thus far in lectures and other readings. This piece was then sent to the editor group for group 1 who were charged with the task of integrating all the sources around the theme of recognition. AmyEA ACL2011 (talk) 07:54, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I am a member of group 2. We were responsible for the section on negotiations and inlcusion of African Customary Law into the Final Consitution. We divided the group into 4 sub-groups in order to promote a more efficient and productive working environment. Our sub-group was in charge of writing about negotiations and the Interim Consitution in relation to Customary Law. We all completed the relevant readings and then sat together as a group and drafted our final contribution. It was then given to a member of our group to reference and then handed to the general editor of Group 2.AshleighHC ACL2011 (talk) 08:03, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I was a member of group 1. I was part of the editing team it was my responsibility to check over the article by Thomas McClendon as well as the Law of Evidence Amendment Act and post them on the site. KateB ACL2011 (talk) 08:08, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I am a member of group of group 1. I was responsible for summarising the section on the cape colony in the Chanock M chapter 11 reading titled "creating the Discourse: Customary Law and Colonial Rule in South Africa" I then submitted my summary to Amy Armstrong who then combined the rest of the summaries for the Chanock readings and this combined summary was then sent to the editors of group 1. ZaakirahA ACL2011 (talk) 08:14, 10 March 2011 (UTC) ZaakirahA ACL2011 (talk) 08:14, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I am a member of group 1 as a part of the editing group. Our editing group was responsible for reading through the summaries we received (Mamdami and Chanock)and make sure that all the information was relevant,combine the two into one one coherent piece and to check that all the references were given. We had to make sure that the quotes were correctly quoted with quotation marks. Sarahhb ACL2011 (talk) 08:29, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

I was part of the sub-group that looked at the Nhlapo reading. THe main point that I noted was the problem identified with using Human Rights discourse which is usually associated with a Western world-view, to critique african customary law which on the face of it can be said to conflict. I believe that ubuntu (a uniquely South African value) should feature prominently as a counter-balance to traditionally Western rights based arguments. JarrodJP ACL2011 (talk) 08:46, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

As part of group 5, sub-group 1, I was tasked, along with Adam Sack, of summarizing the second case study titled Mmlhtong's field in Comaroff, John and Simon Roberts (1981) Chapter 3: “The Normative Repertoire”. After which another sub-group member dealt with bring the entire summary together before posting it. AaieshahS ACL2011 (talk) 19:19, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

As part of group 4 and the final sub- group of that group I was responsible for reading the Merry article, I was specifically responsible for focusing on explaining how the concept of rights and the concept of culture have changed, within the broader scope of the article, on how these concepts are not necessarily at odds with one another. Thus my focus was more theoretical, more about underlying meanings and stayed away from the case studies and historical events creating Merry's view. WayneM_ACL2011

I was in group 2 that dealt with African Customary Law in the MPNP. I examined the role that ubuntu played in the development of South African Customary Law. I also examined the role that the First Certification Judgment played in the inclusion of Customary Law values in the Constitution. I got a lot out of the Himonga article, while the chapters from Bennett were useful in providing a basic overview of the development of the Customary Law during this period. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevo Collier (talk • contribs) 16:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I am in group 5 and have read the following article: Comaroff, John and Simon Roberts (1981) Chapter 3: “The Normative Repertoire. I was the editor in that subgroup and my role was to bring in everyone's summaries, edit the summary and post it on the page. MandisaS ACL2011 (talk) 05:52, 14 March 2011 (UTC)