South Africa’s history of labour migration saw generations of people forced to leave these family homes to find work. But many people strongly connect with rural homes, where umbilical cords are ...

For Motlhamme, although she owned 50 percent of her township home by right and ... A Gendered Analysis of Family Homes in South Africa, highlighted cases where customary law succession is in ...

During apartheid, black South Africans could not own land – and therefore their homes – in what were classified as “white” cities. In racially segregated townships, living in ‘family ...

A recent ruling by the Johannesburg high court in South Africa has put the definition ... Legislative recognition of a family home requires sensitivity to African customary laws.

By Lynsey Chutel Eight people in one small house in a South African township ... Africa has long recorded high rates of violent crime, but more recently gunmen have started targeting taverns and ...