Talk:Polokwane Local Municipality

Latest comment: 15 years ago by NJR ZA in topic Polokwane vs. Polokwane Local Municipality

Polokwane vs. Polokwane Local Municipality

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In order to clean up any possible misunderstanding, here is an overview of the differences between the two.

In short, Polokwane is the old Pietersburg while Polokwane Local Municipality incorporates Polokwane as well as the surrounding apartheid era black townships, informal settlements and farming communities.

Except for the fact that both the city and the local municipality that serve the greater region has for some reason been given the same name, it is no different than all the other local municipality/central town pairs in the country. One example of such a pair where the major settlement has not been renamed is Nelspruit/Mbombela Local Municipality; Mbombela incorporates Nelspruit as well as other smaller settlement, black townships left over from apartheid and informal settlements.

--NJR_ZA (talk) 08:33, 29 July 2009 (UTC)Reply