People in rural South Africa live subject to at least two distinct legal universes, and their respective dispute management forums: state law and vernacular law. This book discusses how contemporary rural people use vernacular dispute management forums and what needs exist for the legal regulation thereof. The author takes the discussion of how 'traditional courts' are to be regulated out of the legislative arena back to the empirical context in which these forums exist and operate. The book provides in-depth understanding of the empirical realities of vernacular dispute management and the...