chieftain

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chieftain

the head or leader of a tribe or clan

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And if the centre has been unjust to the Balochs, haven't the chieftaincies too?

Real Baloch issue

For her study, the author identified three distinct chieftaincies in Sekhukhune from which data would be collected.

Oomen, Barbara. Chiefs in South Africa: Law, power and culture in the Post-Apartheid era

The rumours were triggered by a series of protests against the evictions on 14 October of residents of two chieftaincies who refused to be ruled by the King's brother, Prince Maguga Dlamini.

The prince who would not be king

This scheme resulted in a proliferation of chieftaincies. Initially, Sekhukhuneland counted nine chieftaincies, but by the mid 1970s more than 50 chiefs had been officially recognized.(5) The paramountcy had been abolished.

"One chief, one vote": the revival of traditional authorities in post-apartheid South Africa

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