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Table of Contents
Customary Initiation Act, 2021 (Act No. 2 of 2021)
Notice No. 333 of 2021
Act
Preamble
Chapter 1 : Interpretation, Application, Objectives and Principles
1. Definitions
2. Applications, objectives, interpretation and prohibitions
3. Guiding principles
Chapter 2 : Oversight and Coordinating Structures
Part 1 : National Initiation Oversight Committee
4. Establishment, composition and term of office
5. Chairperson and deputy chairperson
6. Disqualifications
7. Vacancies
8. Meetings
9. Functions
10. Administrative and financial support
Part 2 : Provincial Initiation Coordinating Committees
11. Establishment, composition and term of office
12. Chairperson and deputy chairperson
13. Vacancies
14. Meetings
15. Functions
16. Technical support teams
17. Administrative and financial support
Chapter 3 : Role-Players
18. Government
19. Houses of traditional leaders
20. Traditional leaders
21. Principals and care-givers
22. Parents or legal or customary guardian
23. Traditional surgeons
24. Medical practitioners
25. South African Police Service and National Prosecuting Authority
Chapter 4 : Initiation Schools
26. Registration
27. Initiation seasons
28. Consent, prohibitions, age and circumcision
29. Discipline and teachings
30. Water, sanitation, food, health care, liquor and drugs
31. Death of initiate
Chapter 5 : General Provisions
32. Allowances and expenditure
33. Offences
34. Appeals
35. Regulations
36. Monitoring
37. Provincial peculiarities
38. Provincial legislation providing for a PICC
39. Local initiation structures and municipalities
40. Implementation of Act
41. Interim arrangements
42. Short title
Regulations
Customary Initiation Regulations, 2025
Notice No. R. 6680 of 2025
Chapter 1 : Interpretation
1. Definitions
Chapter 2 : National Initiation Oversight Committee
2. Interim chairperson
3. Meetings of NIOC
4. Assignment of tasks
5. Monitoring, inspections, investigations and closing of initiation schools
6. Reports
Chapter 3 : Provincial Initiation Coordinating Committee
7. Interim chairperson
8. Meetings of PICC
9. Assignment of tasks
10. Monitoring, inspections, investigations and closing of initiating schools
11. Reports
Chapter 4 : General Provisions
12. Establishment notices
13. Directives by the Minister
14. Assistance by traditional leaders
15. Appeals
16. Transitional period
17. Conduct of members of NIOC and PICCs
18. Short title
Notices
Establishment of National Initiation Oversight Committee
Notice No. 1075 of 2021
Schedule
Establishment of National Initiation Oversight Committee (NIOC) in terms of Customary Initiation Act, 2021 (Act No. 2 of 2021)
Establishment of National Initiation Oversight Committee
Notice No. 2736 of 2022
Schedule
Ministerial Determinations on Fees Paid for Customary Initiation
Notice No. 7294 of 2026
Schedule : Provincial-Specific Fees
Proclamations
Commencement of Customary Initiation Act, 2021 (Act No. 2 of 2021)
Proclamation 35 of 2021
‘‘Director-General’’
means the Director-General of the Department;
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