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Government Gazette 22 December 2000
Act No. 25, 2000
No. 2456
TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000
(2) The President shall on receipt of a notice referred to in subsection
(1) recognise the designation of the chief or head of the traditional community
concerned by proclamation in the Gazette, setting out in such notice the
particulars referred to in subsection (1) with regard to such chief or head.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary in this Act
contained, a chief or head of a traditional community shall be deemed not to
have been designated under this Act, unless such designation has been
recognized under this section.
(4) Any application in terms of section 5 of the repealed Act for the
designation of a chief or a supreme traditional leader of a traditional
community which does not have a chief, which has not been finalized prior to
the repeal of that Act by this Act shall be dealt with and finalized in terms of
the corresponding provisions of this Act.
Powers, duties and functions of chief or head of traditional community
7. A chief or head of a traditional community (a) shall be the custodian of the customary law of the traditional
community which he or she leads;
(b) shall exercise his or her powers and perform his or her duties and
functions and in accordance with that customary law;
(c) may, subject to sections 8(2) and 15(5), appoint any other member
of his or her traditional community to act in his or her place, when
he or she is for any reason unable to act as chief or head of that
traditional community;
(d) shall perform such other powers and exercise such other duties or
functions as may be conferred upon him or her by statutory law or
the applicable customary law;
(e) shall assign one or two senior traditional councillors to assist him or
her in the administering of the affairs of the Chief ’s Council or the
Traditional Council, as the case may be .
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