1.3 In terms of the Twelfth Amendment and the Repeal Act, which came into operation on 1 March 2006, the provincial boundary between, amongst others, the provinces of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu- Natal was altered so that the area that previously formed the local municipality of Matatiele (the Matatiele municipality) was relocated to the province of the Eastern Cape and new municipal boundaries were created as a consequence.