THE trouble with the inclusion in SA’s democracy of traditional leadership is that the wars of the princes of yore are being foisted on tech-wielding millennials who have the right to choose their culture and the duty to advance modernity.In the kingdom of Bapo ba Mogale, unexpectedly enriched by the gods, a scrap over a delinquent treasure (R610m, according to the University of Cape Town’s Brendan Boyle) is stoking an old conflict between the houses Mogale, Maimane and Moerane, all descendant of Kgosi Bob Mogale. In a paper by North West University law professor Khunou Samuelson Freddie, he laments the constitution of the royal family of the Bapo as flawed and finds that the system of traditional governance is in a shambles.The casual observer might dismiss the perpetuation of this old conflict (the most notable aspect of which might be the uncanny simile with Lear and the consequences of parental favouritism) as quaint but irrelevant in the bigger scheme of things. When a sizeable...
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