City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

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City of Tshwane
Metropolitan municipality
Official seal of City of Tshwane
Seal
Location in Gauteng
Location in Gauteng
Coordinates: 25°40′S 28°20′E / 25.667°S 28.333°E / -25.667; 28.333Coordinates: 25°40′S 28°20′E / 25.667°S 28.333°E / -25.667; 28.333
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceGauteng
SeatPretoria
Wards107
Government
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorRandall Williams (DA)
Area
 • Total6,298 km2 (2,432 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total2,921,488
 • Density460/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African75.4%
 • Coloured2.0%
 • Indian/Asian1.8%
 • White20.1%
First languages (2011)
 • Northern Sotho16.4%
 • Afrikaans13.4%
 • Tswana24.7%
 • Tsonga8.4%
 • English10.4%
 • Zulu4.3%
 • Other22.4%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeTSH
Tshwane sign, with the former logo depicting the Union Buildings in Pretoria, with slogan "We are the same" (photo 2005)

The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (also known as the City of Tshwane) (/tswɑːnɪ/) is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa. The Metropolitan area is centred on the city of Pretoria with surrounding towns and localities included in the local government area.

History[]

The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality was established on 5 December 2000,[4] comprising 13 former city and town councils and managed under an executive mayoral system.

The Metsweding District Municipality was incorporated into the municipality[5] with effect from 18 May 2011 (the date of the 2011 municipal elections).

Geography[]

The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality's land area increased from 2,198 square kilometres (849 sq mi)[6] in 2010 to 6,368 square kilometres (2,459 sq mi) after the incorporation of Metsweding.[7]

The Tswaing crater is in the northwest of Soshanguve.

Constituent areas[]

The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality consists of the following areas:[8]

Main places[]

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[9]

Place Code Area (km2) Area (sq mi) Population Most spoken language
Akasia 799037 80.84 31.21 59,455 Tswana 24% Afrikaans 23% Pedi 12% English 10%
Atteridgeville 799056 9.84 3.80 64,425 Pedi 41% Tswana 17% Sotho 12%
799045 13.85 5.35 2,456 Afrikaans 32% Pedi 26%
Bon Accord 799036 15.85 6.12 2,270 Afrikaans 33% English 14% Pedi 13% Tsonga 11%
799067 29.28 11.31 623 Ndebele 25% Afrikaans 23%
Bronkhorstspruit 799072 34.00 13.13 12,470 Afrikaans 47% Ndebele 10% English 10%
799013 92.48 35.71 2,147 Afrikaans 61%
Centurion 799059 394.88 152.46 236,580 Afrikaans 49% English 26%
Cullinan 799049 55.66 21.49 8,693 Afrikaans 49% Pedi 16%
799025 7.45 2.88 3,874 Tswana 58% Pedi 14% Tsonga 10%
799051 22.33 8.62 3,472 Pedi 28% Zulu 13% Afrikaans 12% Tsonga 12% Ndebele 11%
Eersterust 799047 6.05 2.34 29,676 Afrikaans 78% English 11%
Ekangala 799054 46.05 17.78 48,493 Zulu 33% Ndebele 29% Pedi 15%
Ga-Rankuwa 799034[permanent dead link] 52.18 20.15 90,945 Tswana 69%
799020 101.60 39.23 4,309 Afrikaans 50%
Hammanskraal 799012 7.60 2.93 21,345 Tswana 46% Pedi 18% Tsonga 15%
799033 1.02 0.39 2,321 Tswana 41% Pedi 17% Tsonga 15%
Kameeldrift 799043 32.76 12.65 6,727 Pedi 29% Afrikaans 28%
799010 2.61 1.01 15,709 Pedi 34% Tswana 31% Tsonga 13%
Part 2 799065 8.60 3.32 8,738 Afrikaans 54% English 25%
Laudium 799058 6.07 2.34 19,102 English 77% Afrikaans 12%
Mabopane 799080[permanent dead link] 42.20 16.29 110,972 Tswana 59% Pedi 10%
799004 5.79 2.24 9,972 Tswana 31% Pedi 24% Tsonga 18%
Mamelodi 799046 45.19 17.45 334,577 Pedi 42% Zulu 12% Tsonga 11%
799011 3.72 1.44 7,305 Tswana 28% Tsonga 22% Pedi 21%
799009 6.65 2.57 17,455 Tswana 29% Pedi 22% Tsonga 21%
799005 5.55 2.14 14,118 Tswana 36% Pedi 24% Tsonga 19%
799052 56.69 21.89 14,979 Pedi 25% non-official languages 20% Tsonga 14% Ndebele 10%
799053 13.03 5.03 56,111 Pedi 35% Zulu 13%
799023 23.64 9.13 35,059 Tswana 28% Pedi 22% Tsonga 22% Ndebele 10%
799078 11.39 4.40 70,863 Pedi 33% Zulu 14%
Onverwacht 799028 1.24 0.48 1,518 Afrikaans 29% Pedi 29% Sotho 15%
Pretoria 799035 687.54 265.46 741,651 Afrikaans 48% English 16%
799002 6.00 2.32 15,760 Tswana 30% Pedi 22% Tsonga 19% Ndebele 11%
Rayton 799050 145.99 56.37 8,166 Afrikaans 59% Pedi 11%
Refilwe 799048 2.22 0.86 19757 Pedi 52% Zulu 10%
799055 1.75 0.681.75 10,964 Zulu 32% Ndebele 31% Pedi 13%
799062 24.33 9.39 1,915 Afrikaans 42%
Saulsville 799057 8.66 3.34 105,208 Pedi 45% Tsonga 15%
Soshanguve 799021 126.77 48.95 403,162 Pedi 28% Tswana 17% Tsonga 15% Zulu 14%
799022 12.75 4.92 2,157 Tsonga 29% Tswana 28% Pedi 17%
799024 0.13 0.050 39,201 Tswana 33% Tsonga 24% Pedi 17%
799007 126.77 48.95 11,071 Tswana 36% Tsonga 22% Pedi 21%
Temba 799008 21.81 8.42 58,431 Tswana 49% Pedi 16% Tsonga 12%
799038 1.98 0.76 1,809 Ndebele 70%
799075 32.14 12.41 1,167 Afrikaans 50%
799032 4.34 1.68 2,702 Tswana 30% Ndebele 24% Zulu 11% Pedi 11% Tsonga 8%
799026 3,126.37 1,207.10 16,831 Ndebele 29% Afrikaans 23% Zulu 11% Pedi 10%
799064 50.98 19.68 1,458 Afrikaans 38% Ndebele 21%
799019 62.99 24.32 2,517 Afrikaans 46% Pedi 13%
Winterveld 799029 104.52 40.36 120,826 Tsonga 22% Tswana 20% Zulu 19% Pedi 12%
Zithobeni 799038 3.86 1.49 22,434 Ndebele 30% Zulu 28% Pedi 13%
799066 37.50 14.48 1,148 Afrikaans 35%

Demographics[]

There were around 2,921,500 (2011 census)[9] people living within the borders of Tshwane: 75.40% black, 20.08% white, 2.01% coloured and 1.84% Indian or Asian.[9]

Ethnic group 2011 census[]

Ethnic group Population %
Coloured 58 788 2.01%
Black African 2 202 847 75.40%
White 586 495 20.08%
Indian/Asian 53 744 1.84%
Other 19 614 0.67%
Total 2 921 488 100.00%

Ethnic group 2011 census (age 0–4)[]

Ethnic group Population %
Coloured 5 802 2.12%
Black African 225 111 82.20%
White 36 860 13.46%
Indian/Asian 4 280 1.56%
Other 1 814 0.66%
Total 273 867 100.00%

Politics[]

The municipal council consists of 214 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 107 are elected by first-past-the-post voting in 107 wards, while the remaining 107 are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016, the Democratic Alliance (DA) won a plurality of 93 seats on the council, but no party won a majority. On August 19, 2016, minority parties united with the DA to vote in DA mayoral candidate, Solly Msimanga as the first Democratic Alliance mayor of Tshwane.[10] Msimanga appointed a mayoral committee coalition consisting of the DA, African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF+).

Msimanga resigned in February 2019. The Democratic Alliance nominated Stevens Mokgalapa to succeed him. Mokgalapa was elected on 12 February 2019.[11] Mokgalapa announced his resignation in February 2020.

Seats in the city council after the 2016 elections
  EFF
  ANC
  DA
  FF Plus
  Others

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.[12][13]

Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
Democratic Alliance 381,146 381,044 762,190 43.2 39 54 93
ANC 361,950 366,702 728,652 41.3 68 21 89
EFF 102,511 102,895 205,406 11.6 0 25 25
Freedom Front Plus 17,789 17,421 35,210 2.0 0 4 4
ACDP 4,553 4,168 8,721 0.5 0 1 1
Independent 5,185 – 5,185 0.3 0 – 0
COPE 2,347 1,975 4,322 0.2 0 1 1
PAC 1,767 1,269 3,036 0.2 0 1 1
Others 5,026 8,619 13,645 0.8 0 0 0
Total 882,274 884,093 1,766,367 100.0 107 107 214
Spoilt votes 10,193 10,224 20,417

On 5 March 2020, the Gauteng provincial government placed Tshwane under administration and the council was consequently dissolved. A new council was set to be elected within 90 days.[14] After months of legal challenges, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the provincial government's decision on 27 October.[15] Randall Williams was elected mayor on 30 October.[15]

Services[]

Water and sanitation[]

As of 2016, City of Tshwane receives 72% of its bulk water from Rand Water, which utilizes the Integrated Vaal River System. The remaining 28% of Tshwane's water is sourced from its own treatment plants and boreholes. Water restrictions are implemented during drought, heat waves or other seasonal changes.

Transport[]

Railway[]

The main rail station is in Pretoria.

The Gautrain runs through parts of the municipality, with stations in Centurion and Pretoria, ending at a station in the suburb of Hatfield.

Airports[]

OR Tambo International Airport in neighbouring Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality serves Tshwane. Wonderboom Airport in the north of Tshwane serves light aircraft.

Education[]

The front part of the Theo van Wyk Building on the Main Campus of UNISA
University of Pretoria's Old Arts Building

Tertiary education[]

See also: List of universities in South Africa

The Tshwane municipality is home to the Tshwane University of Technology, and the largest distance education university (the University of South Africa, more commonly known by its acronym, UNISA), as well as The University of Pretoria, one of South Africa's leading research and teaching universities, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU, previously called University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus) and Medical University of Southern Africa-MEDUNSA) a medical school, and the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

Military[]

AFB Swartkop

Air Force[]

The South African Air Force military bases AFB Waterkloof and AFB Swartkop are in Centurion.

Thaba Tshwane Military Base[]

Thaba Tshwane military base (formerly called Voortrekkerhoogte and before that Roberts Heights) is in the municipality.

Memorials[]

The SANDF memorial is at Fort Klapperkop and the South African Air Force memorial is at AFB Swartkop.

Society and culture[]

Media[]

Main article: Media in Tshwane

Museums[]

There are a large number of museums, many of them in Pretoria.

Festivals[]

The city of Tshwane hosted the 10th World Choir Games, organised by the , between 4–14 July 2018.[16] Various locations across the city were used as venues to host concerts and ceremonies for the event, including the Musaion and Aula theatres at the University of Pretoria, the ZK Matthews Great Hall at the University of South Africa, and the Pretoria State Theatre.[17] The event was the first of its kind on the African continent.[16]

Sporting venues[]

Scout Groups[]

  • 1st Nan Hau Scout Group
  • 5th Hillcrest/Colbyn Scout Group
  • 6th St Andrews Scout Group
  • 8th St Albans Scout Group
  • 9th Irene Air Scout Group
  • 10th Arcadia Scout Group
  • 13th St Patricks Scout Group
  • 14th Delp Scout Group
  • 22nd Waterkloof / Kosmos Sea Scout Group
  • 23rd Lyttleton Scout Group
  • 35th Pretoria Sea Scout Group
  • 36th Sinoville Scout Group
  • 37th Springvale Scout Group
  • 40th Glenstantia Scout Group
  • 41st Parks Scout Group
  • 42nd Laudium Scout Group
  • 46th Midstream Scout Group

Sport[]

The city is home to the Tshwane Suns who compete in South Africa’s highest basketball division, the Basketball National League.[18][19]

Name change: Pretoria to Tshwane[]

[original research?]

Logo of City of Tshwane depicting the Union Buildings in Pretoria, with slogan "We are the same".

Tshwane [tsʰwane] is the Setswana name of the Apies River, which flows through the city. The origin of the name of the river is unclear. It may mean "place -e of the black cow, tshwana, from ceremonies where a black cow was sprinkled with water from the river to end a drought.[20] Another claim is that it was named after Tshwane, son of Chief Mushi, an Ndebele leader who settled near the Apies River about a century before the arrival of the Voortrekkers in the early 19th century.[20] However, some Ndebele kings claim to have never heard of a chief named "Tshwane".[21]

Two other common explanations are demonstrably untrue. One is that it is the Tswana for the motto of Tshwane Municipality, "We are the same". However, this appears to be promoted for its emotional value; if anything, it would mean "we are not the same" in Tswana (ga re tshwane).[20] Another common misunderstanding is that it is the Tswana word for "little monkeys"; although it resembles the Tswana word for baboon, tshwene, "little monkeys" is actually the translation of the Afrikaans name "Apies".

The name Tshwane is sometimes used as an alternate name for the city of Pretoria itself. Following the city council's vote on March 8, 2005, it could become the city's new name if approved by the central government. Should the change take place, "Pretoria" would continue to refer to the city's central business district, as proposed by the current municipality. By November 2007 the change of the name from Pretoria to Tshwane had not been finalized, and controversy over the name change continues. The change is seen by many as a way to recognize that peoples of non-colonial origins represent a majority in the city. The controversy, however, says that the city was originally established under the name Pretoria, little evidence has been provided for the origin of the name “Tshwane”, and no form of jurisdiction for the area existed before Pretoria's creation.

The Sunday Times used the word Tshwane to refer to the Pretoria area for a short period in 2005. The state-controlled SABC also started using the term in its evening news broadcasts, for a period, but by 2010, had reverted to "Pretoria". Private media outlets continued to refer to the metropolitan area as Pretoria. The Pretoria News, the main newspaper in the metropolitan area did not appear to have plans to change its name as of early 2006, although it has adopted the slogan "The paper for the people of Tshwane". The newspaper refers to the capital city as Tshwane and sometimes Pretoria. This, with the public backing of the name change by the editor of the Pretoria News, Philani Mgwaba,[22] has led to the independence of the editorial team being called into question.

Road signs erected at the boundaries of the Tshwane Metropolitan area have been consistently defaced, with the word Tshwane replaced with the word Pretoria, presumably by South Africans opposed to the name change. The letters PTA, which are an abbreviation of "Pretoria", have also been stencilled on a number of speed limit signs.[citation needed]

On 21 May 2005, the Pretoria Civil Action Committee, a group consisting of business, labour, cultural, civil and political leaders opposed to the name change organised a protest in the Pretoria city centre.[23] They marched to the office of Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan and handed him a petition signed by 3000 University of Pretoria students as well as other petition documents. Former president FW De Klerk, a Nobel prize winner and the last president under apartheid, also raised concerns about the change.[24]

In November 2005, the Advertising Standards Authority found that advertising proclaiming that Tshwane, rather than Pretoria, was the capital of South Africa was misleading.[25]

The Pretoria name change[]

On 5 December 2000, a number of old Pretoria municipalities, as well as others that fell outside the Greater Pretoria area, were combined into one area called the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.[citation needed] The city of Pretoria remained largely intact in this municipality[clarification needed]. On the 26 May 2005 the South African Geographical Names Council unanimously approved a recommendation by the Tshwane Metro Council that the name Pretoria be changed to Tshwane.[26]

The legal process involved is as follows:[citation needed]

  1. Recommendation to the Geographical Names Council.
  2. Council approves/rejects recommendation (approved 26 May 2005).
  3. Council gives its recommendation to Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan[needs update].
  4. Minister approves/rejects recommendation.
  5. Approved/rejected name is published in the Government Gazette.
  6. Any person or body unhappy with the name change can complain within one month of above.
  7. The minister can consult the Geographical Names Council with concerns raised.
  8. The minister's decision, along with the reasons for it, are published
  9. The minister will then take the matter before parliament where the central government will decide on whether to change the name or not based on the information before it.

Some controversial groups have attached themselves to the Pretoria name change issue, including the trade union Solidarity.[27] Solidarity and the have threatened legal action should the name change be recommended by the minister. As of November 2007 the name change has not yet been approved or rejected by the minister (step 4 above). In early August 2007, it was reported in the press that the municipality, after consulting with the Gauteng provincial government had withdrawn the application to change the name, and was instead contemplating a plan to change all road signs pointing to "Pretoria" to "Tshwane" or the "City of Tshwane" across the country. This plan raised threats of legal action from both political groupings opposed to the renaming, and concerns from municipal officials about the possibility of vandalism to the proposed signs.[28][29]

In 2010, the Ministry of Arts and Culture prepared to publish the registration of Tshwane as a place name, in the Government Gazette. However, the registration was withdrawn at the last minute, which was explained by the minister.[clarification needed][why?] Although it was too late to remove the name from printing in the Government Gazette, the retraction of the name registration was published the following week in the gazette.[30] In November 2011, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, who had been elected mayor earlier that year, vowed to push forward with the renaming in 2012.[31]

Management and corruption[]

As in other parts of the country, the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality experiences high levels of corruption. Significant resources of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) are dedicated to this region since 2010.[32][33][34] The screening of applicants for management positions has also been criticized.[35]

When, by November 2020, businesses and residents owed the metro R12 billion,[36] the metro outsourced its credit management to 34 debt collecting agencies after normal means were ineffectual. This is expected to increase the metro's income levels, cash flow and capacity for service delivery.

See also[]

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