Locating the Woman: A Note on Customary Law and the Utility of Real Property in the Swaziland Context
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter looks at women, land and property law within the context of Swaziland. In recent years, in common with its’ Southern African neighbours’, Swaziland has seen an increased awareness of land and property security as a gendered issue. In Swaziland, this has resulted in mobilization of feminists to support equality claims to real property and land law in the Roman- Dutch system. I observe that although the promotion of the culturally indigenous has historically been done at the expense of woman’s experience with land and real property, a core opportunity afforded by relying on the self-governance of Swazi law and custom for promoting security of property rights is its ability to situate the woman’s multi-faceted relationship to land within her cultural reality. This observation is particularly important in a legally dualistic society such as Swaziland, where judgements from the High Court operate within an indigenous legal and cultural context. Ultimately the chapter explores the importance of grounded research in the interaction between law & custom and common law in the process of engaging with and realizing rights to property.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".