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Figures have been edited by an IP used by a known vandale, User:205.188.116.74. Please vet the changes. --Wetman 06:35, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The changes made by that IP were only to the dollar comparison (at a rate of R6.65 to the US$), so it seems like nothing fundamental was changed. As for the other more recent changes, please add sources - anonymous unattributed changes don't help too much. --Greenman 14 Jun 2005.

[edit] Municipal Demarcation

There has been changes in the demarcation of local municipalities and no mention is made that "local" muncipalities are grouped together into six "district" muncupalities. More info can be found at Municipal Demarcation Board and offical Weastern Cape government source . I attempted to start the process at Western Cape Province but links from that page need to be modified and the template at the bottom as well. So this should be a bottom-up edit and not top-down, and the local-municipal pages need to be changed/moved first. -- Warpedshadow 15:44, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I have re-organised all the WC municipalities into there districts and moved some of the pages to their new names. Warpedshadow 01:03, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Province

Note: this discussion has been moved to Talk:Provinces of South Africa#Province article naming. Please add any new comments there.

After the long debate about whether or not to call Cape Town, City of Cape Town... I have another! :) What's everyone's view on using the word Province for all the provinces? It looks odd to me, and I know I'd never say 'Western Cape Province' or 'Gauteng Province'. They're just Western Cape, Gauteng, Mpumalanga etc. Joziboy 15 March 2006, 20:06 (UTC)

I know what you mean - certainly I wouldn't normally say "Western Cape Province", and it feels kind of wrong on all the articles. However, it is quite normal to talk about North West Province and Limpopo Province, if only to distinguish them from the cardinal direction and the river respectively. It seems to me that there are three choices:
  1. sticking with the "Province" suffix on all 9 articles, which is probably technically correct with respect to the full name of the governmental entity - and after all, SA provinces are purely government entities; the provinces don't really have geographical significance.
  2. dropping "Province" on the articles except Limpopo and North West, which would seem less wrong, but it wouldn't really be consistent.
  3. dropping "Province" on all the articles, and change Limpopo to "Limpopo (South African province)" and similarly for North West. It also seems less wrong (to me), and more consistent with Wikipedia standards for disambiguating article titles.
I would be in favour of number 3, but I don't really have a strong opinion any way. - htonl 22:15, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, I wouldn't say Limpopo Province either. Prepositions usually clear up any confusion - "I'm going to Limpopo", "What's the capital of Limpopo?", "We have a house in Limpopo" all make it sound like it's the province. Else it would be the Limpopo. But yeah, I suppose it's not the end of the world either way. It just looks odd - we don't call South Africa "South Africa Country" :) Anyways, option 3 sounds good to me. Joziboy 16 March 2006, 15:13 (UTC)

Yup, count me in on #3 as well. I would very, very rarely add "province" when referring to any of our provinces. dewet|™ 15:19, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I've copied this discussion to Talk:Provinces of South Africa#Province article naming, as it would seem to be more correct to have it there. - htonl 18:54, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Note: this discussion has been moved to Talk:Provinces of South Africa#Province article naming. Please add any new comments there.