Women demand equal land rights from traditional leaders

Sick and tired of always being allocated the back seat and being represented by men when it comes to land, a group of women are saying “enough is enough” and are taking the fight to traditional leaders, whom they see as stumbling blocks to women’s right of access to land.

Inyanda is a collective of grassroots social organisations that advocate for land, food, sovereignty, human rights and realisation of rural democracy in the marginalised communities. It mobilises mainly rural women, youth, farm workers and small-scale farmers. “We work hard to produce food through our projects, but we have no access to land as women,” Phindane said.

Phindane said some traditional leaders continued with the old ways of regarding women as minors who needed to be represented by men. Even the land expropriation without compensation policy was silent on the rights of women to own land, she added. “As Contralesa, our take on this is that women are human beings like all other people and they are entitled to land like everybody.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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