Alternatives
Another way to include traditional Chiefs in a nation's political life is to assign to them a number of seats in a wider assembly, for example, in the case of Zimbabwe, in which 10 Chiefs are chosen as members of the Senate, the country's upper house of Parliament. From 1990 to 2005, they were represented in the House of Assembly (now the lower house) when it was the sole legislative chamber.
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Famous quotes containing the word alternatives:
“The last alternatives they face
Of face, without the life to save,
Being from all salvation weaned
A stag charged both at heel and head:
Who would come back is turned a fiend
Instructed by the fiery dead.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)