Metropolitan municipality (South Africa)
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In South Africa, a metropolitan municipality or Category A municipality is a municipality which executes all the functions of local government for a city or conurbation. This is by contrast to areas which are primarily rural, where the local government is divided into district municipalities and local municipalities.
The Constitution, section 155.1.a[link], defines "Category A" municipalities. In the Municipal Structures Act[link] it is laid out that this type of local government is to be used for conurbations, "centre[s] of economic activity", areas "for which integrated development planning is desirable", and areas with "strong interdependent social and economic linkages".
The metropolitan municipality is similar to the consolidated city-county in the USA, although a South African metropolitan municipality is created by notice of the provincial government, not by agreement between district and local municipalities.
List of metropolitan municipalities
- Cape Town
- eThekwini (Durban)
- Tshwane (Pretoria)
- Ekurhuleni (East Rand)
- Johannesburg
- Nelson Mandela Metropole (Port Elizabeth)
See also
- List of South African Municipalities
- South African Municipalities
- Government of South Africa
- South Africa
References
- Government Communication & Information Services (2005) [Categories of municipalities]
- Parliament of the Republic of South Africa (1996) [Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Chapter 7: Local Government]
- Parliament of the Republic of South Africa (1998) [Local Government: Municipal Structures Act], Act 117 of 1998.
- [South African Local Government Association]
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