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The imminent demise of customary law

By Pravin Bowry

The new Constitution does not mention African Customary Law, and the Judicature Act is the only enactment which acknowledges the existence of the body of largely unwritten laws that have been derived from the tribal social practices regarded as obligatory by the communities concerned.

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