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Roman water law in rural Africa: the unfinished business of colonial dispossession by van Koppen, Barbara, Zaag, P. van der, Manzungu, Emmanuel, Tapela, B.

“…First, do permit systems continue to dispossess rural small-scale users, as intended by European colonizers who introduced principles of Roman law? Second, is it wrong to assume that one can convert one legal system (customary water rights) into another legal system (permits) in the short term? …”
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