Acts Online
GT Shield

Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act, 2003 (Act No. 41 of 2003)

Chapter 7 : General Provisions

27. Code of conduct

 

 

(1) The code of conduct contained in the Schedule applies to every traditional leader and traditional council and must, in respect of a particular province, be read together with the relevant provincial code as envisaged by subsection (2)(a).

 

(2)
(a) Provincial legislation may prescribe a provincial code of conduct for traditional leaders and traditional councils in the province concerned that complements the code of conduct contained in the Schedule.
(b) A provincial code of conduct envisaged in paragraph (a) may—
(i) further regulate or define the ambit of a matter mentioned in item 1 or 2 of the Schedule; or
(ii) prescribe any other matter that a traditional leader or a traditional council must adhere to.

 

(3) Applicable provincial legislation must at least provide for—
(a) mechanisms to deal with any breach of the code of conduct; and
(b) fines that may be imposed for a breach of the code of conduct, and in respect of a traditional leader also other penalties that do not include the removal of the traditional leader; and
(c) an acting position during the period that a traditional leader is suspended for a breach of the code of conduct, if such a penalty is provided for.