February 2023

Zulu monarchy land engagements and the Section 25 of the South African constitution

This work is an attempt to highlight some landmarks in how the Zulu descendants engaged the issue of land with the settlers of any time in South Africa. The method of telling as it happened is a way to confront the history and try to find a natural way of rectifying land rights in settings where the customary land tenure system was overturned by the fortress based on the Western ways of land management. Dispossessed...

Author(s): Zondo Lethiwe

May 2023

Sociocultural conservation strategies of prioritized medicinal plants, their historical context and space for integration

The conservation of medicinal plants must be an all-inclusive endeavor that factors in the contribution of all stakeholders, both formal and informal. This paper highlights the importance of sociocultural aspects in the conservation of medicinal plant sources and resources using both traditional and modern conservation strategies. Efficacious traditional conservation strategies that featured prominently in the study...

Author(s): Willy Kibet Chebii, John Kaunga Muthee and Karatu Kiemo