Voices From Sa

Sanele Sibanda is a senior lecturer at the School of Law at Wits University in Johannesburg. He was born in Zimbabwe to a Zimbabwean father and a South African mother. His father was involved in the negotiations that led to Zimbabwe gaining independence in 1980. Sanele's areas of teaching include critical constitutionalism and indigenous law reform. We chatted about his student days at the University of Cape Town in the early 1990's, the role of a constitution and the rule of law in building a national identity, and how indigenous/customary law can be better incorporated into our mainstream legal system. The role of the constitution in the ongoing land reform debate in South Afrcia also came up in our conversation.