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Withdrawal of Recognition of Traditional Communities

Provincial laws must provide for the withdrawal of the recognition of a community as a traditional community as well as withdrawal of the recognition of traditional councils.

A community can request that its recognition as a traditional community be withdrawn and it can request that it be divided into separate traditional communities or merged into single traditional communities. Before a community or council’s recognition is withdrawn, there must be consultation with the provincial house of traditional leaders.