Voices| The call for the release of AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo by the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) should be seen as part of the broader struggle by the liberation movement to defeat remnants of colonialism.
The call for the release of AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo by the Azanian People’s Organisation should be seen as part of the broader struggle by the liberation movement to defeat remnants of colonialism.
As a matter of policy, the English demoted all kings to the status of chiefs because as far as they were concerned, there was only one monarch: the English monarch. Traditional leaders who resisted colonialism were brutally murdered, and others dethroned and forced into banishment. One of those who suffered the barbarism of the British was King Hintsa, whose body was dismembered and his head taken as a trophy of colonial conquest to England.
If April 27 1994 was a real break with the past, the new political dispensation would have created a space for our traditional leaders. We all know that April 27 was, on many fronts, a false dawn. We did not get our land back from the descendants of colonialists. We did not get the wealth redistributed. We did not get the objectives of the cultural revolution we were all hoping for.
So, when King Dalindyebo was administering justice in an area that he believed was under his control, he found himself on the wrong side of the Roman-Dutch law. He was arrested and given a jail term. The country’s revered Constitution is explicit about protection of private property, including land. This means that if we were to use the Constitution as a guide, we should leave the current land ownership patterns as they are, where more than 70% of the land is owned by the white minority of less than 15%. There is no justification for this. And it is simply logical that the land question has to be addressed if we are to ensure the long-term stability of our country.
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