The following section summarises some of the pertinent issues that the committee considered when deliberating the Black Authorities Act Repeal Bill: . The Black Authorities Act gave the State President the authority to establish "with due regard to the native law and custom" tribal authorities for African tribes as the basic unit for administration. Those tribal authorities have now been transformed into traditional councils for the purposes of Section 28 of the Traditional Leadership Governance Frameworks Act, Act No. 43 of 2003. The Traditional Leadership Governance Frameworks Act, 2003 entrenches the apartheid era tribal boundaries and authorities in rural areas.