😮Embattled amakhosi of the KZN House of Traditional Leaders go to court to challenge newly-appointed leadership. Amakhosi KZNnews TheCitizenNews Catch up on the story here⤵️
“The first and second respondents [the premier and Cogta MEC] do not have the power to create or to establish a provincial house [of traditional leaders], which is required to be established in terms of the provincial legislation enacted through the KZN legislature. The elections that were conducted in June 2022 were not lawful nor legally effective,” said the applicants in the court papers.
“The first and second respondents are not authorised or empowered to establish a provincial house [of traditional leaders], as defined and contemplated in the act. The traditional houses that were established in KwaZulu-Natal, pursuant to the former Traditional Leadership and Government Framework Act, cease to exist by reason of subsection 63 and of the act.
The respondents were interdicted and restrained from recognising the structures . “The second respondent is ordered to pay the costs of this application, provided that if any other respondent opposes this application, it will be requested that such respondent be also ordered to pay such costs, jointly and severally,” read the papers.
Powers that, in terms of customary law, ought to vest with Isilo are, in terms of the provincial act, vested with the premier. We believe [that] a substantial proportion of the traditional leadership in KwaZulu-Natal did not participate in the [June] elections
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