Cooperation between municipalities and traditional leaders is a challenge. This contributes to lack of service delivery. Local government is a democratically elected institution that has legitimate powers to handle issues relating to the delivery of services, which involves public monies. Traditional leaders' responsibilities should, therefore, solely be for issues of tradition and custom, as they are custodians of culture and tradition. This, however, is not sufficient to traditional leaders as they have vast areas of land and subjects under their leadership. It is therefore important for both institutions to find an amicable solution to this so that there is cooperation for the benefit of service delivery in the community. This article looks at the viability of co-operation in developing areas that fall under traditional leaders, whether traditional leaders are satisfied with the roles and functions as provided for by the Tradi