User:Htonl/Local government transition (South Africa)

The local government transition was a process of restructuring of local government in South Africa following the end of apartheid. Under apartheid there were many different types of local authority in South Africa, most of which were divided along racial lines. In the transition these were reorganised into a single system of local government with "wall-to-wall" municipalities covering the whole territory of South Africa. The transition process began during the negotiations to end apartheid in the early 1990s, and ended with the municipal elections of 5 December 2000. The process was governed by the Local Government Transition Act, 1993, one of the last acts passed by the Tricameral Parliament.