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The change aims to promote the well-known brand names of two of the strongest companies within the Group, Momentum and Metropolitan. MMI Holdings was formed in 2010 when Metropolitan Holdings and Momentum Group, two insurance and financial services companies in South Africa, merged their operations. [1]
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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 municipality covers an area of 1,645 square kilometres (635 sq mi), stretching from Orange Farm in the south to Midrand in the north, and contains two big urban centres, Johannesburg and Midrand, and nine more smaller urban centres, namely Roodepoort, Diepsloot, Killarney, Melrose Arch, Randburg, Rosebank, Sandton, Soweto, and Sunninghill.
The municipality was established as a local municipality in 2000 after South Africa's reorganisation of municipal areas, and is named after the Buffalo River, at whose mouth lies the only river port in South Africa. On 18 May 2011, it was separated from the Amathole District Municipality and converted into a metropolitan municipality.
The Johannesburg conurbation which includes Johannesburg and the areas of the East Rand, area under the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and the West Rand. It is often referred to as the Witwatersrand, or Rand, after a low mountain range that runs through the area. Greater Johannesburg's growth was largely based initially on the discovery ...
In West Africa, masking traditions are closely linked with the history of masquerades. Dogon Masks and Ceremonial Costumes Though the precise origins of masking traditions in precolonial Africa remain unknown, Raphael Chijioke Njoku theorized that masquerades developed among the Bantu people sometime before 3000-2500 BCE.
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality: BUF East London: 2,750 834,997 303.6 Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality: EC137 Chris Hani Ngcobo: 2,484 162,014 65.2 Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality: EC101 Sarah Baartman Graaff-Reinet: 28,653 82,197 2.9 Elundini Local Municipality: EC141 Joe Gqabi Nqanqarhu: 5,019 144,929 28.9 Emalahleni Local ...