Customary Initiation Act, 2021 (Act No. 2 of 2021)

Regulations

Customary Initiation Regulations, 2025

Chapter 2 : National Initiation Oversight Committee

5. Monitoring, inspections, investigations and closing of initiation schools
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(1) Any member of the NIOC who has to conduct monitoring, an investigation or inspection as contemplated in the Act, must, if such monitoring, investigation or inspection requires of such person to have access to an initiate or initiates or to an area of the relevant initiation school other than the area contemplated in section 21(7) of the Act, be a person who has undergone initiation himself or herself, in accordance with the relevant customs and customary law.

 

(2) For the purposes of an investigation or inspection as contemplated in the Act, the NIOC may request the relevant Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service (“SAPS”) to designate a member or members of SAPS to accompany the member or members of the NIOC.

 

(3)

(a) The NIOC must, for the purposes of the first proviso to section 9(1)(b) of the Act, inform the relevant PICC in writing of its intention to conduct an inspection or investigation, at least three working days before the envisaged inspection or investigation, and indicate the period within which the PICC must designate a member as contemplated in the said proviso and inform the traditional leader in whose area of jurisdiction the relevant initiation school is located and the relevant land owner, where applicable.
(b) The failure of a PICC to designate a member as contemplated in the first proviso to section 9(1)(b) of the Act within the period indicated by the NIOC, does not prevent the NIOC from conducting such inspection or investigation: Provided that in such instances the NIOC must, prior to the relevant inspection or investigation, give written notice thereof to the HOD, at least one working day before the envisaged inspection or investigation, and inform the Director-General accordingly.

 

(4) If a PICC has not been established in a particular province, the NIOC must give written notice of its intention to conduct an inspection or investigation as contemplated in section 9(1)(b)(i), (ii) or (vi) of the Act to the HOD, at least three working days before the envisaged inspection or investigation, and inform the Director-General accordingly.