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Estimated mid-year population:
2 040 517

Nine year population growth:
21.26 percent

Average annual population growth rate:
2.17 percent

Average population density (people per km2):
938

Size of municipal area:
2 174km2

Municipal budget (operating and capital) 2003/2004:
Operating: R5,1 billion
Capital: R755,9 million

Gross geographic product (GGP) as a percentage of (Gross National Product) GNP
Region's share of National Total
1990 1996 1999 2000
Ga-Rankuwa
0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4%
Temba
0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
Pretoria
9.3% 7.2% 7.5% 7.8%
Soshanguve
0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
Wonderboom
0.5% 0.7% 0.7% 0.8%
Tshwane
10.3% 8.8% 9.1% 9.5%

Source WEFA

The abovementioned information was purchased from WEFA. They in turn get most of the data from StatsSA. The data has not yet been transformed to correspond to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality’s boundries. The magisterial boundries have been used. The figures are therefore not exact but the only available information without conducting a complete business and manufacturing census of the region. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality will, in the near future, have data from its own economic database. This will still not be compatible with national data because of different methods used to calculate the GGP or GDP. With these figures the same method was used. Essentially an Input -Output table was used. It is updated using various (RAS) mathematical and econometric techniques.

Number of elected councillors:
76

Municipal staff employed:
13 100


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City of Tshwane (Pretoria)

Pretoria lies 50kn north of Johannesburg and is the administrative capital of South Africa. The city is dominated by government services and the diplomatic corps of foreign representatives in South Africa.

Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, stated in the State of the City address on 26 February 2002 that: "An audit of backlogs was done, and this formed the basis for a programme we appropriately dubbed the Quick and Visible Service Delivery Programme. This programme entailed the identification of critically urgent needs all over Tshwane and satisfying them through sharing human and other resources. Human upliftment and job creation were realised through the execution of the quick and visible projects. Local contractors were used and they in turn employed people from the communities in which they operated. All this was in synch with our commitment to focus on the visible improvement of our people's situation.

This was immediately followed by a longer-term strategic plan for the delivery of municipal services. The Tshwane Interim Integrated Development Plan (IIDP), approved by the Council on 5 April 2001, formed the basis for the capital projects budget of the 2001/2002 Financial Year. The guidelines for the compilation of the IIDP originated from the National Department of Developmental Planning and Local Government's document titled the "Interim Integrated Developmental Plan, Action Plan" (2002). This document contains information on service backlogs such as housing, sanitation, water, electricity, roads, refuse removal, and institutional capacity - ie the number of professionals per department, organigrams and existing committees.

The strategic budget framework provides a comprehensive list of projects that were prioritised, some of which were implemented during 2001. The most notable of these was the provision of free basic amounts of water and electricity to all the residents of Tshwane, resulting in some alleviation of the plight of the poorest among us."

The City of Tshwane includes the following areas:

  • The Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council
  • The City Council of Pretoria
  • The Town Council of Centurion
  • Northern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure (Akasia)
  • Hammanskraal Local Area Committee
  • Eastern Gauteng Services Council
  • Pienaarsrivier Transitional Representative Council
  • Crocodile River Transitional Council
  • Western Gauteng Services Council
  • Winterveld Transitional Representative Council
  • Themba Transitional Representative Council
  • Mabopane Transitional Representative Council
  • Ga-Rankuwa Transitional Representative Council
  • Eastern District Council


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Contact details
Executive Mayor Gwen Ramokgopa Councillor JK Dau Blake Mosley-Lefatola
Executive Mayor
Gwen Ramokgopa
Tel: (012) 358-4905
Fax: (012) 323-5117

Mayor's secretary, Ms Bulelwa Msomi
Tel: (012) 358-4905

City Speaker
Khorombi Dau
Tel: (012) 358-1001
Fax: (012) 358-1312

Secretary, Mercy Mogoane
Tel: (012) 358-1017
E-mail: MercyMo@tshwane.gov.za

City Manager
Blake Mosley-Lefatola
Tel: 0800 11 12 09 or 0800 11 44 03
E-mail: citymanager@tshwane.gov.za