It is now common sense that all those transformative ideals envisaged by the Framework Act have failed to materialise and this failure is due to the very nature of these traditional councils. No attempts have been made by the department to understand what the underlying factors are, which have contributed to the failure of these Councils to establish themselves based on the provision of the Framework Act. No attempts have been made to fix those shortcomings; though the department knows for their own political agendas, the government is not eager to challenge the traditional leaders to conduct their businesses in a democratic and legal manner. They need to be a major rethink and reimagination of the kind of governance we need for South African rural people. This