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GEOGRAPHIC
AREA
The
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is now responsible
for municipal service delivery to residents who formerly received
their services from the following local authorities: the Greater
Pretoria Metropolitan Council, the City Council of Pretoria,
the Northern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure, the Town
Councils of Centurion, Mabopane, Ga-Rankuwa, Winterveld, Hammanskraal,
Temba, Pienaarsrivier and Crocodile River, portions of the
Eastern and Western Gauteng Services Council and the Eastern
District Council.
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MAP
of City of Tshwane. Click on MAP to enlarge
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SERVICE DELIVERY
To ensure an uninterrupted service delivery to taxpayers of
the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, the relevant
council that served you in the past will in the interim still
continue to do so. These councils and municipalities will
now be known as administrative units each headed by an Administrative
Unit Manager. An interim administrative structure is in place
to make sure that municipal service delivery continues in
the newly demarcated area of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.
CLASSIFICATION AND SIZE
The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is a category
A municipality with a mayoral executive system combined with
a ward participatory system. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan
Municipality consists of 152 councillors of which 76 are proportionally
elected councillors and 76 are ward councillors.
EXECUTIVE MAYOR The first meeting of the City of Tshwane
Metropolitan Municipality will take place during December
2000. During the first meeting it is expected that the following
office bearers will be elected: The Speaker and the Executive
Mayor. The Executive Mayor will also appoint the members of
the Mayoral Committee.
MUNICIPAL SERVICES
Residents who have enquiries about the day to day municipal
services and activities in their area can contact their local
council offices. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
is aptly named. The name Tshwane comes to us from Chief Mushi,
who settled in the Pretoria area about 100 years before the
arrival of the Voortrekkers in the early 1800s. Chief Mushi
and his tribe had moved from Zululand and first settled at
Mokgapane (Mooiplaas, east of Pretoria). He later moved from
Mooiplaas to what is now the Pretoria area, on the banks of
the Tshwane River, named after his son Tshwane (today called
the Apies River). Tshwane had six sons who each headed a segment
of his tribe and who later broke away to form independent
new tribes in the areas which would become Sinoville, Bon
Accord, Walmansdaal and Hammanskraal. Tshwane relocated to
Sefateng sa Phitsane (Wonderboom Poort) where he lived until
his death. A plaque at the entrance of the Wonderboom Nature
Reserve attests to the fact that Chiefs Mushi and Tshwane
are believed to have been buried under the large Moraceae
trees. Tshwane is the authentic African name for Pretoria.
Also interesting is that the word tshwane means "we are the
same" or "we are one because we live together". The name City
of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality refers to the new municipal
area. However, the names of the cities and towns that make
up the municipal area (Pretoria, Temba, Centurion, Hammanskraal,
etc) remain unchanged.
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Demographic information and Ward delimination
on CD Rom available on request.
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