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Presentation by Hosi H. Sibisi Mahatlani Traditional Courts Bill, Cape Town 19 September 2012 Vukosi bya ka Mahatlani I am Hosi Sibisi Mahatlani from Mahatlani Village in Hlanganani,Vhembe District in Limpopo. I represent myself and the Mahatlani Traditional Community. My contribution about the Traditional Courts Bill is that the whole bill must be scrapped and started afresh. My reasons are that we, at Mahatlani, are under an imposed Traditional Authority by the colonial and apartheid laws since late 1950s. My predecessors and our Community does not recognize the imposed Traditional Authority, it discriminates against us on issues of development. They also consider us as outsiders. The imposed Traditional leader has registered a mine in his own name without informing anybody in the area for his personal gain. He is selling our part of the Klein Letaba river sand without our consent and any compensation to us. My grandfather have told the then apartheid Commissioners that we are a Community on our own and my grandfather as Chief at Mahatlani has never been a junior traditional leader and is not going to start reporting to someone else. We did not have much problems with the Authorities up till the middle 1960s when the Gazankulu Homeland was started. My predecessors had numerous meetings with the then Homeland Premier Prof. Ntsanwisi, they submitted and presented in the Ralushai Commission. They also submitted Chieftaincy, land and boundary claims to the Nhlapo Commission as well.? We have submitted claims to the Kgatla Commision currently in progress in Limpopo. I do not understand why this Bill is being rushed especially in Limpopo, while we are still waiting to appear before the Kgatla Commission. The Commission has still to give its recommendations as to who the legitimate Traditional Leaders are in Limpopo. If the Bill is pushed ahead, the Bill will legitimize all the imposed leaders and we do not