Talk:Polokwane Local Municipality

Polokwane vs. Polokwane Local Municipality
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.
 * Polokwane is the city previously known as Pietersburg. The South African Geographical Names Council shows that its name was changed from Pietersburg to Polokwane on 2005-02-25. It is located within the Polokwane Local Municipality
 * Polokwane Local Municipality is a local municipality than includes not only Polokwane, but also a number of other settlements such as Mankweng, Seshego and others.

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)