Traditional leadership of Namibia

Traditional leaders are entrusted with the allocation of communal land and the formulation of the traditional group's customary laws. Typical punishments are in money or in livestock. For instance, the traditional courts of the Ovambo people in Namibia's north fine ten cows or 15,000N$ for murder, two cows or 3,000N$ for impregnating a child, and up to six cows for theft, depending on severity. The traditional court of the Oorlam people at Vaalgras in Namibia's south, where there are few communal cattle farmers, fines three goats for theft. ==Recognised traditional authorities==