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- noun Plural form of
paramountcy .
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Examples
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The findings followed an investigation by the commission into the status of South Africa's existing paramountcies.
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The determination on these paramountcies was made in terms of customary law and the National Framework Act of 2003, Mufamadi said.
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Withdrawal of recognition for paramount chiefs and the disestablishment of paramountcies;
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The Commission has made determinations regarding the legitimacy of the current paramountcies and confirmed that some of them are infact Kingships.
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The Act currently does not provide for the mechanism to disestablish the paramountcies established in terms of the old order legislation.
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There is also no provision for the establishment of kingships, and this means that the President may not recognise any kingship (from the current paramountcies).
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In the south east there had been the kingdoms of the Xhosa, sub-divided into a number of principalities (or paramountcies as the colonialists preferred to call them); in the north east the
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The paramountcies that are not recognised are the Batlokwa ba Mota and the Kakwena baMopeli in the Free State, the AmaRharbabe, the Amampondo ase-Nyandeni and the AbaThembu base-Rhode the in the Eastern in Cape and the Ndundza Mabhoko in Mpumalanga.
iac world news feed 2010
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"paramountcies and chieftaincy", concluded that South Africa has only seven legitimate kingships and recommended that the others lose their status on the death of the current incumbents.
iac world news feed 2010
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