City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

City of Tshwane
Metropolitan municipality

Seal

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
Country South Africa
Province Gauteng
Seat Pretoria
Wards 107
Government[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • Mayor Solly Msimanga (DA)
Area
 • Total 6,298 km2 (2,432 sq mi)
Population (2011)[2]
 • Total 2,921,488
 • Density 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[2]
 • Black African 75.4%
 • Coloured 2.0%
 • Indian/Asian 1.8%
 • White 20.1%
First languages (2011)[3]
 • Northern Sotho 19.9%
 • Afrikaans 18.8%
 • Tswana 15.0%
 • Tsonga 8.6%
 • Other 37.7%
Time zone SAST (UTC+2)
Municipal code TSH


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 /ˈtswɑːnɛ/ (also known as the City of Tshwane) 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 into 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.

2011 expansion

The Metsweding District Municipality was incorporated into the City of Tshwane Metropolitan 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.

Subdivisions

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 79903780.84 31.2159,455Tswana 24% Afrikaans 23% Pedi 12% English 10%
Atteridgeville 7990569.84 3.8064,425Pedi 41% Tswana 17% Sotho 12%
Baviaanspoort 79904513.85 5.352,456Afrikaans 32% Pedi 26%
Bon Accord 79903615.85 6.122,270Afrikaans 33% English 14% Pedi 13% Tsonga 11%
Boschkop 79906729.28 11.31623Ndebele 25% Afrikaans 23%
Bronkhorstspruit 79907234.00 13.1312,470Afrikaans 47% Ndebele 10% English 10%
Bultfontein 79901392.48 35.712,147Afrikaans 61%
Centurion 799059394.88 152.46236,580Afrikaans 49% English 26%
Cullinan 79904955.66 21.498,693Afrikaans 49% Pedi 16%
Dilopye 7990257.45 2.883,874Tswana 58% Pedi 14% Tsonga 10%
Donkerhoek 79905122.33 8.623,472 Pedi 28% Zulu 13% Afrikaans 12% Tsonga 12% Ndebele 11%
Eersterus 7990476.05 2.3429,676Afrikaans 78% English 11%
Ekangala 79905446.05 17.7848,493Zulu 33% Ndebele 29% Pedi 15%
Ga-Rankuwa 79903452.18 20.1590,945Tswana 69%
Haakdoornboom 799020101.60 39.234,309Afrikaans 50%
Hammanskraal 7990127.60 2.9321,345Tswana 46% Pedi 18% Tsonga 15%
Hebron 7990331.02 0.392,321 Tswana 41% Pedi 17% Tsonga 15%
Kameeldrift 79904332.76 12.656,727Pedi 29% Afrikaans 28%
Kekana Garden 7990102.61 1.0115,709Pedi 34% Tswana 31% Tsonga 13%
Kungwini Part 2 7990658.60 3.328,738Afrikaans 54% English 25%
Laudium 7990586.07 2.3419,102 English 77% Afrikaans 12%
Mabopane 79908042.20 16.29110,972Tswana 59% Pedi 10%
Majaneng 7990045.79 2.249,972Tswana 31% Pedi 24% Tsonga 18%
Mamelodi 79904645.19 17.45334,577Pedi 42% Zulu 12% Tsonga 11%
Mandela Village 7990113.72 1.447,305Tswana 28% Tsonga 22% Pedi 21%
Marokolong 7990096.65 2.5717,455Tswana 29% Pedi 22% Tsonga 21%
Mashemong 7990055.55 2.1414,118Tswana 36% Pedi 24% Tsonga 19%
Mooiplaas 79905256.69 21.8914,979Pedi 25% non-official languages 20% Tsonga 14% Ndebele 10%
Nellmapius 79905313.03 5.0356,111Pedi 35% Zulu 13%
New Eersterus 79902323.64 9.1335,059Tswana 28% Pedi 22% Tsonga 22% Ndebele 10%
Olievenhoutbos 79907811.39 4.4070,863Pedi 33% Zulu 14%
Onverwacht 7990281.24 0.481,518Afrikaans 29% Pedi 29% Sotho 15%
Pretoria 799035687.54 265.46741,651Afrikaans 48% English 16%
Ramotse 7990026.00 2.3215,760Tswana 30% Pedi 22% Tsonga 19% Ndebele 11%
Rayton 799050145.99 56.378,166Afrikaans 59% Pedi 11%
Refilwe 7990482.22 0.8619757Pedi 52% Zulu 10%
Rethabiseng 7990551.75 0.681.7510,964Zulu 32% Ndebele 31% Pedi 13%
Roodepoort B 79906224.33 9.391,915Afrikaans 42%
Saulsville 7990578.66 3.34105,208Pedi 45% Tsonga 15%
Soshanguve 799021126.77 48.95403,162Pedi 28% Tswana 17% Tsonga 15% Zulu 14%
Soutpan 79902212.75 4.922,157Tsonga 29% Tswana 28% Pedi 17%
Stinkwater 7990240.13 0.05039,201Tswana 33% Tsonga 24% Pedi 17%
Suurman 799007126.77 48.9511,071Tswana 36% Tsonga 22% Pedi 21%
Temba 79900821.81 8.4258,431Tswana 49% Pedi 16% Tsonga 12%
Thembisile 7990381.98 0.761,809Ndebele 70%
Tierpoort 79907532.14 12.411,167Afrikaans 50%
Tsebe 7990324.34 1.682,702Tswana 30% Ndebele 24% Zulu 11% Pedi 11% Tsonga 8%
Tshwane NU 7990263,126.37 1,207.1016,831Ndebele 29% Afrikaans 23% Zulu 11% Pedi 10%
Vaalbank 79906450.98 19.681,458Afrikaans 38% Ndebele 21%
Waterval 79901962.99 24.322,517Afrikaans 46% Pedi 13%
Winterveld 799029104.52 40.36120,826Tsonga 22% Tswana 20% Zulu 19% Pedi 12%
Zithobeni 7990383.86 1.4922,434Ndebele 30% Zulu 28% Pedi 13%
Zwavelpoort 79906637.50 14.481,148Afrikaans 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+).

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

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.[11][12]

Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
Democratic Alliance 381,146 381,044 762,190 43.2 39 54 93
African National Congress 361,950 366,702 728,652 41.3 68 21 89
Economic Freedom Fighters 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
African Christian Democratic Party 4,553 4,168 8,721 0.5 0 1 1
Independent 5,185 – 5,185 0.3 0 – 0
Congress of the People 2,347 1,975 4,322 0.2 0 1 1
Pan Africanist Congress 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

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

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). The University of Pretoria, one of South Africa's leading research and teaching universities, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus) (formerly known as Medical University of Southern Africa) a medical school in the north of Tshwane and the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are also in the municipal area.

Military

AFB Swartkop

Air Force

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

Thaba Tshwane Military Base

Although the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality was only created in 2000, before that a military base in the city (formerly called Voortrekkerhoogte after the Voortrekkers and before that Roberts Heights after Lord Roberts), was renamed Thaba Tshwane.

Memorials

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

Society and culture

Media

Museums

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

Sport

Stadiums

Scout Groups

Name change: Pretoria to Tshwane

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.[13] 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.[13] However, some Ndebele kings claim to have never heard of a chief named "Tshwane".[14]

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).[13] 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 of 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,[15] 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.

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.[16] 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.[17]

In November 2005, the Advertising Standards Authority found that advertising proclaiming that Tshwane, rather than Pretoria, was the capital of South Africa was misleading.[18]

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. The city of Pretoria remained largely intact in this municipality. 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.[19]

The legal process involved is as follows:

  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.
  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.[20] Solidarity and the Pretoria Civil Action Committee 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.[21][22]

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. 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.[23] In November 2011, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, who had been elected mayor earlier that year, vowed to push forward with the renaming in 2012.[24]

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.[25][26][27] The screening of applicants for management positions has also been criticized.[28]

Cooperation with Swiss Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation

The City of Tswhane partners with the Swiss Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation, which is currently developing SuRe® – The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, a global voluntary standard which integrates key criteria of sustainability and resilience into infrastructure development and upgrade.[29]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Structure and Roles of the City of Tshwane". City of Tshwane. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
  5. ↑ "Tswane property tariff hike shock : Property News from". IOLProperty. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  6. ↑ "Tshwane Metropolitan Profile" (PDF). City of Tshwane. 2004. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
  7. ↑ "City to become largest in SA". South African Cities Network News. BUANews. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011. The City of Tshwane will become the largest metropolitan municipality in the country after the local government elections when it incorporates the Metsweding District Municipality.
  8. ↑ "Areas constituting the City of Tshwane". City of Tshwane. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
  9. 1 2 3 Statistics South Africa: data reworked by Adrian Frith Tshwane - Census 2011
  10. ↑ http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/live-tshwane-elects-a-mayor-20160819
  11. ↑ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Tshwane" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  12. ↑ "Seat Calculation Detail: Tshwane" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  13. 1 2 3 "Meanings of place names in South Africa: Tshwane". Africanlanguages.com. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  14. ↑ "Forum policy - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source". Mg.co.za. 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  15. ↑ "Pretoria News". Pretoria News. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
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  17. ↑ "Pretoria name change?". Mg.co.za. 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
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  19. ↑ "South African Geographical Names Council approves name change from Pretoria to Tshwane". Mg.co.za. 2010-07-23. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  20. ↑ "Solidarity trade union South Africa - Solidariteit - Ons beskerm ons mense!/We protect our people!". Solidaritysa.co.za. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
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  22. ↑ Independent Online. "Politics: Moves afoot to make Tshwane the capital". Iol.co.za. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  23. ↑ "Pretoria is Pretoria again - for now". Jacarandafm.com. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  24. ↑ Tshwane it will be – mayor, iol.co.za; accessed October 28, 2015.
  25. ↑ du Toit, Pieter (2011-04-04). "LP’s hoor vloed van korrupsie spoel oor SA". Beeld. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
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