The Barokolokgadi community received their ancestral land under the land restitution programme, which transferred land to the Barokolokgadi Communal Property Association. Though the community does not recognise the tribal authority, they cannot escape the authority of the chief. The Barokolokgadi's attempts to be an independent community were all in vain because the North-West Provincial Government believed that "the traditional authority cannot be dismantled, lest floodgates of problems are opened, and this would create administrative problems" (North-West Provincial Government, 2009).