The Humanities in partnership with Law Faculties at Nelson Mandela University, presents a seminar on African Indigenous Jurisprudence with Prof Barney Pityana as a keynote speaker and Advocate Ngcukaitobi as a respondent.
The year 2023 marks two hundred years since the systematic representation of isiXhosa language from the oral into written form. It was the first language to have a systematic orthography in Southern Africa. This occurred in the Tyhume Valley near Alice in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa and was followed by active literary activity driven by the Lovedale Press, also in Alice.
Africa and specifically the Eastern Cape region, has a rich and diverse legal heritage which, for reasons related to our past, is not recognised in our academic canon. In re-imagining and re-interpreting the indigenous legal heritage, the early African thinkers' writings are a backdrop for illustrating the legal and judicial systems in this part of the world, especially before contact with Europe. SEK Mqhayi's Ityala lamawele, for example, is one of the authoritative sources that provides an account of the Xhosa judicial processes and will be a good source as we celebrate 200 years of print in isiXhosa this year.
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