if a surviving spouse who stays on the land remarries and dies the new surviving spouse will also have a right to remain on the land however if the second surviving spouse dies the land reverts to the traditional authority to determine who has the right to stay on the land this decision must be made in consultation with the members of the concerned family or families identified by the traditional authority with reference to the relevant customary law traditional gender practices and norms such as patrilocal residence and patrilineal inheritance influence the decisions ofthe village committees in such a way that renders womens land tenure insecure