It points to as a high-level panel report concludes a lack of political will on the part of a governing party to ensure transformation and democratisation of our traditional councils of a desire to foster Bantustan tactics, first applied by the apartheid regime. There is also a more sinister intend behind the Bill. That is to protect and legitimise agreements such as mining and other commercial agreements that have been concluded or are about to be concluded by untransformed and unelected traditional councils. The mining agreements concluded in Limpopo, for example platinum belt, where no official traditional council elections have ever taken place,