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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.
Local, provincial, and national government must work together in South Africa. [5] The South African Local Government Association was created in 1997 to better ensure this, as heavy emphasis was placed on the importance of local and municipal governments in South Africa's development. The 1997 Organised Local Government Act recognizes the South ...
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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)
The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa.
The Municipal Structures Act [3] states that areas not eligible to have a metropolitan municipality must have a district municipality. District municipalities have a municipality code that consists of the letters "DC" followed by a number from 1 to 48.
Each district municipality is divided into a number of local municipalities, and responsibility for municipal affairs is divided between the district and local municipalities. There are 205 local municipalities in South Africa. A local municipality may include rural areas as well as one or more towns or small cities.
South Africa's nine provinces each produce a number of statutes a year, in areas for which they have either concurrent, or exclusive, legislative competence under section 104 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act, 1996. (See Schedule 4 of the Constitution for a list of the functions areas in respect of which a province may ...