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Government Gazette 22 December 2000
Act No. 25, 2000
No. 2456
TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000
law;“head”, in relation to a traditional community, means the supreme
traditional leader of that traditional community designated in accordance with
section 4(1 )(a) or (b), as the case may be, and recognised as such under
section 6;
“investigation committee’ means the investigation committee appointed in
terms of section 12(2);
“member”, in relation to (a) a traditional community, means a person either or both of whose
parents belong to that traditional community, and includes any other
person who by marriage to or adoption by a member of that
traditional community or by any other circumstance has assimilated
the culture and traditions of that traditional community and has
been accepted by the traditional community as a member thereof;
(b) a traditional authority, means a chief, a head of a traditional
community, a senior traditional councillor, or a traditional
councillor;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for Regional and Local
Government;
“prescribed” means prescribed by r egulation made under section 19;
“repealed Act” means the Traditional Authorities Act, 1995 (Act No. 17 of
1995);
“senior traditional councillor” means a senior councillor of a traditional
community appointed or elected in accordance with section 10;
“this Act” includes any regulation prescribed thereunder;
“traditional authority” means a traditional authority of a traditional community
established in terms of section 2(1);
“traditional community” means an indigenous homogeneous, endogamous
social grouping of persons comprising of families deriving from exogamous
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