Editorial

Abstract

This is the second issue of the inaugural volume of the Turf Law Journal. The first issue published seminal papers that firmly launched the journal into the academic discourse. Hence, obtaining another set of quality contributions for the second issue has been relatively easy. Both senior and emerging academics have contributed to this inauguralvolume’s first and second issues. The articles published in the journal are not limited to any specialised area of law. The journal’s view of legal scholarship is that, jurisprudentially, the law is better studied within its broader socio-legal and transdisciplinary context. This approach is the antithesis of the positivistic and straight-jacketed study of law. It is the epitome of disenchantment with legal positivism as it applied in South Africa during apartheid. 1 The transition into the new era has not involved a move from one constitutional design to the other; it also represents a transition in the episteme – how the law is studied. One of the most evident consequences of coloniality is its damageto the episteme. This is captured crisply by Ndlovu-Gatsheni, who observes that there is an ‘urgent need for epistemic freedom, which restores to African people a centralposition within human history as independent actors.