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  • The policy recognises only the positions of kingship, chieftainship and headmanship within the institution of traditional leadership.

    ANC Today 2003

  • The policy recognises only the positions of kingship, chieftainship and headmanship within the institution of traditional leadership.

    ANC Today 2003

  • As a result of the recognition of headmanship as a level of leadership, it is estimated that about R60,5-million a year will be needed to pay their salaries.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • The system of headmanship differed from province to province and tribe to tribe, and it was not possible for government to introduce uniformity in their salaries, Holomisa said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Although he had tried to resign from the headmanship, Gqozo would not allow him to before a stipulated three-year-term ended.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • An application by six men from Paradysplaas, Sekhukhune, for leave to appeal against their sentences for malicious damage to property and arson, in a dispute about the headmanship of the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Deposed from his headmanship, and deserted with characteristic vacillation by the adherents on whom he counted, the delinquent had fled to the camp of the rival tribe, with whom he had already been in secret negotiation.

    The Shadow of the East

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