What are the 3 categories of municipalities

There are currently three kinds of municipalities:

• metropolitan municipalities which are big cities.
• local municipalities which are towns and their surrounding rural areas.
• district municipalities which coordinate a number of local municipalities in a region.

What are the 3 categories of municipalities

There are currently three kinds of municipalities:

• metropolitan municipalities which are big cities.
• local municipalities which are towns and their surrounding rural areas.
• district municipalities which coordinate a number of local municipalities in a region.

What are the 3 categories of local government?

Local government consists of municipalities, which deliver many of the services people use in their daily lives. The Constitution provides for three categories of municipalities namely metropolitan, district and local municipalities.

What are Category B municipalities?

Local municipalities [Category B]:

Areas that fall outside of the six metropolitan municipal areas are divided into local municipalities. There are a total of 231 of these local municipalities and each municipality is broken into wards. The residents in each ward are represented by a ward councillor.

What are Category C municipalities?

(c) Category C: A municipality that has municipal executive and legislative authority in an area that includes more than one municipality. (2) National legislation must define the different types of municipality that may be. established within each category.

What is a category of a local municipality in South Africa?

As directed by the Constitution, the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act of 1998 contains criteria for determining when an area must have a category-A municipality (metropolitan municipalities) and when municipalities fall into categories B (local municipalities) or C (district municipalities).