Khoi-San urge Zuma to sign Traditional Affairs Bill Published in: Legalbrief Africa New Date: Tue 21 January 2014 Category: South Africa Issue No: 561 The Eastern Capes Khoi-San leaders have made an impassioned plea to President Jacob Zuma to keep his word and sign the National Traditional Affairs Bill - more than two years after the President announced that a Bill to recognise and protect indigenous Khoi-San people would be finalised, according to a report in The Herald. National Khoisan Council chair Cecil le Fleur said his organisation was getting impatient. Representations for the Bill had been made for 20 years without a result. He suspects the delay is a deliberate attempt by government officials, who fear that by admitting the Khoi-San as an indigenous nation would entitle them to certain benefits. Le Fleur said he would meet Traditional Affairs Department officials next week. Headman William Bentley said the Khoi-San leadership had been left out of the system of government, without a voice and with no rights in their country of birth. Full report in The Herald (subscription needed) PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH- Cecil le Fleur and his people who are Griquas are not KhoiSan until we accept them as such, Nor do they have land rights whatsoever. Their genocide cause by them in the past has caused that many tribes lost the land and their leaders who were imprisonment by their hands. Today they align themselves with Ngunis leaderships, structures and the ANC itself who further dispossessed us of our land rights, resources and sea rights, history repeats itself.
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