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The basic structure of local government originates from Chapter 7 of the Constitution of South Africa. In addition to this a number of acts of Parliament regulate the organisation of local government. The principal statutes are: Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, 1998 (Act 27 of 1998)
Annexed by Mthonjaneni, uMfolozi and uMhlathuze Local Municipalities. Ingwe Local Municipality. KZN431. KwaZulu-Natal. 3 August 2016. Merged to create Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Local Municipality. Kwa Sani Local Municipality. KZN432. KwaZulu-Natal.
Provinces. Since 1994, South Africa has been divided into nine provinces: the Eastern Cape, the Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, the Northern Cape and the Western Cape. The boundaries of the provinces, which are specified in the national constitution, have been altered twice by constitutional amendment.
There are two types of municipality at the district level. Most of the country is covered by the 44 district municipalities, which are divided into local municipalities and share responsibilities with them. The eight largest urban agglomerations are governed by metropolitan municipalities, which act as both local and district municipalities.
Witzenberg Municipality(Afrikaans: Witzenberg Munisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Witzenberg) is a local municipalitylocated within the Cape Winelands District Municipality, in the Western Capeprovince of South Africa. As of 2022 it had a population of 103,765.
There are 52 district municipalities and 231 local municipalities in South Africa (see Municipalities of South Africa). [50] In many cases, the district municipalities are the water services authorities. However, the national government can assign responsibility for service provision to local municipalities.
v. t. e. 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 ...
South African administrative law is the branch of public law which regulates the legal relations of public authorities, whether with private individuals and organisations or with other public authorities, or better say, in present-day South Africa, which regulates "the activities of bodies that exercise public powers or perform public functions, irrespective of whether those bodies are public ...