OPINION: This year marks the 20th anniversary since eSwatini began developing its National Land Policy, which has not yet been concluded. Absence of the policy has hindered, among other matters, women’s access to land, land use and security of tenure
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When Sibongile’s husband passed away in 2008, her in-laws told her to pack her clothes and leave her house – unless she was willing to let her late husband’s brother move in with her kungenwa . This systematic denial of women’s rights to access, own, control or inherit land in rural eSwatini is entrenched in customary law, which governs most of the land in the rural areas.
What renders women’s struggle for land access in rural eSwatini complicated is the dual nature of the legal system, which accommodates both customary and statutory legal provisions.
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