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KWAMPUNGOSE, South Africa — As a child, Nike Dlamini grew up under a rule: If anything happened in the family or the village, you went straight to the head man. Quarrels, problems, births ...

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This is a guest post by Laura Dimon. Laura is the Africa program intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. On June 16, the New York Times reported on the role of tribal courts in South Africa ...