South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

MAKHASANENI, South Africa — In a village in the rolling hills of grassland, woodlands and scattered homesteads in South Africa’s picturesque KwaZulu-Natal province, a broil between traditional leaders and community members is playing out. For hundreds of years, chiefs, who have been the unequivocal leaders of Zulu communities in the region, have believed their word … Continue reading South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans