Chiefs
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In the pre-colonial era, tribal
chiefs
– known as kgosi – imposed the penalty for crimes such as murder, sorcery, incest, and conspiracy.
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It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained.
They have no
chiefs.
The other ethnic groups, which did have chiefs, made sure that they surrounded the
chiefs
with councils upon councils upon councils to prevent them from abusing their power.
They don't take any orders from their
chiefs.
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