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City of Johannesburg Metropolitan

Municipality
Coordinates: 26°10′S 28°0′E

The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan

Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseGoli) Johannesburg
is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local
Metropolitan municipality
governance of Johannesburg, the largest city in South
Africa. It is divided into several branches and departments City of Johannesburg
in order to expedite services for the city. Zulu is the most
spoken home language at 23.4% followed by English at
20.1%.

Johannesburg is a divided city: the poor mostly live in the

southern suburbs or on the peripheries of the far north, and
the middle- and upper class live largely in the suburbs of the Seal
central and north. As of 2012, unemployment is near 25%
and most young people are out of work.[3] Around 20% of
the city lives in abject poverty in informal settlements that
lack proper roads, electricity, or any other kind of direct
municipal service.

History
Following the end of the apartheid era, in April 1991 the
Central Witwatersrand Metropolitan Chamber was formed
as a "people-based" negotiating forum prior to holding a
democratic election and the formation of a new
Location in Gauteng
administration for the Johannesburg area. Following the
1993 "Local Government Transition Act", the Greater
Johannesburg Negotiating Forum was created, and this
forum in September 1994 reached an agreement which
entailed regrouping the suburbs into new municipal
structures, the metropolitan local councils (MLCs), and the
overarching Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council,[4]
also known as the "Transitional Metropolitan Council" for
the city.[5]

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evolved over a seven-year period from 1993, when no Coordinates: 26°10′S 28°0′E
metropolitan government existed under apartheid, to the
establishment in December 2000 of today's Metropolitan Country South Africa
Municipality. An "interim phase" commenced with the 1993 Province Gauteng
Constitution. This saw the establishment at the Seat Johannesburg

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metropolitan level of the Transitional Metropolitan Council Wards 130

(TMC) and several urban-level councils under and Government[1]
neighbouring the TMC. In February 1997 the final
 • Type Municipal council
constitution replaced the interim constitution and its
 • Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda (Al
transitional councils with the final system of local Jama-ah)
government which defined the current category A, B and C
municipalities. Today's City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
Municipality was created accordingly as a category A  • Total 1,645 km2 (635 sq mi)
municipality, giving it exclusive executive and legislative Population (2011)[2]
power over its area.[6]  • Total 4,434,827
 • Density 2,700/km2
1995 and the Greater Johannesburg (7,000/sq mi)

Metropolitan Council Racial makeup (2011)[2]

 • Black African 76.4%
The new post-apartheid administration was the "Greater  • Coloured 5.6%
Johannesburg Metropolitan Council" (GJMC), also known  • Indian/Asian 4.9%
as the "Transitional Metropolitan Council", created in  • White 12.3%
1995.[7] The council adopted the slogan "One City, One First languages (2011)[2]
Taxpayer" to highlight its primary goal of addressing  • Zulu 23.4%
unequal tax revenue distribution. To this end, revenue from  • English 20.1%
wealthy, traditionally white areas would pay for services  • Sotho 9.6%
needed in poorer, black areas. The City Council was divided  • Tswana 7.7%
initially into seven municipal substructures (MSSs),
 • Other 39.2%
rationalized within a year to four MSSs, each with a
substantially autonomous authority or "Metropolitan Local Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Council" (MLC) that was to be overseen by the central Municipal code JHB
metropolitan council. Furthermore, the municipal
boundaries were expanded to include wealthy satellite towns like Sandton and Randburg, poorer
neighbouring townships such as Soweto and Alexandra, and informal settlements like Orange
Farm.[7] The four MLCs were: the Southern MLC covering Ennerdale, most of Soweto, parts of
Diepmeadow and the old Johannesburg City and Lenasia; the Northern MLC covering Randburg and
Randburg CBD, and parts of Soweto, Diepmeadow and the old Johannesburg City; the Eastern MLC
covering Sandton, Alexandra, and part of the old Johannesburg City; the Western MLC covering
Roodepoort, Dobsonville and parts of Soweto, Diepmeadow.[8]

However, the new post-apartheid City Council ran into problems in part due to inexperienced
management and political pressure, which contributed to over-ambitious revenue projections, over-
spending, wasted expenditures and out-right fraud.[5] In the newly combined metropole services were
unnecessarily duplicated. But, by far, the biggest financial drain was the failure to collect revenues for
services, which ranged from rent (rates) to utilities. Part of this failure was a result of the anti-
apartheid boycott of paying the government.[9][7]

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In 1999, Johannesburg appointed a city manager to reshape the city's ailing financial situation.[9][10]
The manager, together with the Municipal Council, drew up a blueprint called "iGoli 2002". This was
a restructuring plan to be completed in 2002, that called upon the government to sell non-core assets,
restructure certain utilities, and required that all others become self-sufficient. The plan was strongly
opposed by unions who feared a loss of jobs.

2000 and the new Metropolitan Municipality

In 1999 the Municipal Demarcation Board conducted a study of

metropolitan areas and other large councils, and found that
Johannesburg should be declared as a "category A" municipality.[11] The
following Local Government Municipal Systems Act no. 32 of 2000
replaced the GJMC, its four MLCs and also the neighbouring Midrand
Local Authority, with the new "City of Johannesburg Metropolitan
Municipality" from 6 December 2000.[12][13] The iGoli 2002 plan went
into effect and returned some sectors into "cash cows" that helped
support the city in general.[14] Although some jobs were lost, there were
no mass firings, as agencies used attrition to remove excess staff.[15] The
plan took the city from near insolvency[10] to an operating surplus of R
The eleven superseded 153 million (US$23.6 million).[9]
regions
Following the relative success of iGoli 2002, the city undertook a number
of initiatives both to help equalise municipal services benefits, such as the
water utility's Free Basic Water policy, and to curb fraud and increase payment percentages, such as
the water utility's Operation Gcin'amanzi to repipe areas to eliminate siphonage and to install water
meters for excess use.[16]

For the first six years the city was administered in eleven numbered regions, which were: "Region 1":
Diepsloot, Kya Sand; "Region 2": Midrand, Ivory Park; "Region 3": Sandton, Rosebank, Fourways,
Sunninghill, Woodmead, Strijdom Park; "Region 4": Northcliff, Rosebank, Parktown; "Region 5":
Roodepoort, Northgate, Constantia Kloof; "Region 6": Doornkop, Soweto, Dobsonville, Protea Glen;
"Region 7": Alexandra, Wynberg, Bruma; "Region 8": Inner City (Johannesburg CBD); "Region 9":
Johannesburg South, South Gate, Aeroton, City Deep; "Region 10": Diepkloof, Meadowlands; "Region
11": Ennerdale, Orange Farm, Lenasia.[17]

2006 reorganization

The present day City of Johannesburg was created from eleven existing local authorities, seven of
which were white and four black or coloured. The white authorities were 90% self-sufficient from
property tax and other local taxes, and produced and spent R 600 (US$93) per person in municipal
services, while the black authorities were only 10% self-sufficient, spending R 100 (US$15) per person
in municipal services.[9] Although Johannesburg was divided into eleven administrative regions,
these new divisions did not correspond to the areas governed by the former local authorities.[7] Later,
in 2006, the number of administrative regions was consolidated, from eleven to seven (see § Regions).
The reason given was to separate powers between the legislative and executive bodies of the City.[18]

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Nonetheless, according to the opposition party, fraud, theft and

non-payment still remained problems as of 2013.[19] In fiscal year
2011, the city's audit had R 45,796 million chalked up to
fraudulent activities.[20] In 2013, the city admitted that it would be
unable to collect two-thirds of the R 18 billion in outstanding
billings.[21]

The first undertaking of the newly created City of Johannesburg

Metropolitan Municipality, as mapped out by the "Igoli 2002"
plan, was to restructure Metro Gas, Rand Airport, and some sports
stadiums as stand-alone corporate entities. The city bus service,
the Johannesburg Zoo, the Civic Theatre, the Fresh Produce
Market, and the city's property holdings were turned into Urban sustainability analysis of the
corporations with the city as the single shareholder. Each was run greater urban area of the city using
as a business, with management hired on performance contracts. the 'Circles of Sustainability' method
of the UN Global Compact Cities
In 2010–11, the municipality faced a qualified audit from the Programme
Auditor-General following a large number of billing issues, as the
result of the flawed implementation of a SAP system.[22][3] The
city's call centre also experienced a crisis at the same time, with staff refusing to work.[23][24]

Geography
The municipality covers an area of 1,645 square kilometres (635 sq mi), stretching from Orange Farm
in the south to Midrand in the north, and contains two big urban centres, Johannesburg and
Midrand, and nine more smaller urban centres, namely Roodepoort, Diepsloot, Killarney, Melrose
Arch, Randburg, Rosebank, Sandton, Soweto, and Sunninghill.[11]: 62, 24 

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places (unchanged from the 2001
census):[25]

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Area
Place Code Population Most spoken languages
(km2)
798014 (http://cens
Zulu 26%, Pedi 23%, Tsonga 11%, Xhosa
Alexandra us2011.adrianfrith.c 179,624 6.91
9%, Tswana 9%, Sotho 7%, Venda 4%
om/place/798014)

798011 (http://cens
English 50%, Afrikaans 10%, Zulu 9%,
Chartwell us2011.adrianfrith.c 1,728 9.07
foreign languages 7%, Ndebele 7%
om/place/798011)

English 15%, Zulu 14%, Sotho 12%,

City of 798002 (http://cens
Afrikaans 11%, Tswana 10%, Xhosa 8%,
Johannesburg us2011.adrianfrith.c 9,933 289.84
Pedi 8%, foreign languages 5%, Tsonga 4%,
(non-urban) om/place/798002)
Venda 4%
798012 (http://cens
English 65%, foreign languages 15%,
Dainfern us2011.adrianfrith.c 6,601 4.08
Afrikaans 4%, Zulu 4%
om/place/798012)

798003 (http://cens Pedi 22%, Zulu 19%, Tsonga 10%, Ndebele

Diepsloot us2011.adrianfrith.c 138,329 12.00 10%, Venda 9%, Tswana 7%, Xhosa 5%,
om/place/798003) foreign languages 4%, Sotho 4%

798035 (http://cens
Zulu 42%, Sotho 28%, Xhosa 8%, Tsonga
Drie Ziek us2011.adrianfrith.c 35,622 7.53
7%
om/place/798035)
798007 (http://cens Pedi 29%, Zulu 23%, Tswana 7%, Tsonga
Ebony Park us2011.adrianfrith.c 22,309 1.63 7%, Xhosa 6%, Sotho 6%, Ndebele 4%,
om/place/798007) English 4%

798033 (http://cens Afrikaans 19%, English 18%, Zulu 17%,

Ennerdale us2011.adrianfrith.c 71,815 21.33 Sotho 16%, Xhosa 8%, Tsonga 5%, Tswana
om/place/798033) 5%

798017 (http://cens English 47%, Afrikaans 12%, foreign

Farmall us2011.adrianfrith.c 1,051 5.01 languages 9%, Zulu 7%, Pedi 5%, Tswana
om/place/798017) 4%, Ndebele 4%
Pedi 22%, Venda 15%, Tswana 13%, Zulu
798021 (http://cens
11%, Ndebele 7%, Sotho 7%, Tsonga 7%,
Itsoseng us2011.adrianfrith.c 5,243 0.58
English 4%, foreign languages 4%, Xhosa
om/place/798021)
4%

798006 (http://cens Pedi 23%, Tsonga 22%, Zulu 21%, Xhosa

Ivory Park us2011.adrianfrith.c 184,383 9.21 7%, foreign languages 5%, Ndebele 5%,
om/place/798006) Sotho 4%

English 31%, Zulu 19%, Afrikaans 12%,

798015 (http://cens
foreign languages 7%, Xhosa 5%, Ndebele
Johannesburg us2011.adrianfrith.c 957,441 334.81
4%, Sotho 4%, Pedi 4%, Tswana 4%, Tsonga
om/place/798015)
3%, Venda 1%
798005 (http://cens Pedi 30%, Zulu 21%, Tsonga 10%, Xhosa
Kaalfontein us2011.adrianfrith.c 46,147 4.96 8%, foreign languages 5%, Sotho 5%,
om/place/798005) Ndebele 5%, Tswana 4%

798024 (http://cens
Tswana 33%, Zulu 17%, Xhosa 11%, Sotho
Kagiso us2011.adrianfrith.c 5,182 0.57
9%, Tsonga 8%, Venda 5%, Pedi 4%
om/place/798024)

798039 (http://cens
Zulu 35%, Xhosa 22%, Sotho 20%, Tsonga
Kanana Park us2011.adrianfrith.c 21,005 6.82
5%
om/place/798039)
Lakeside 798037 (http://cens 23,503 3.78 Sotho 48%, Zulu 30%, Xhosa 8%
us2011.adrianfrith.c
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Area
Place Code Population Most spoken languages
(km2)
om/place/798037)
798019 (http://cens Pedi 19%, Tswana 15%, Zulu 15%, Tsonga
Lanseria us2011.adrianfrith.c 4,788 1.83 10%, Venda 8%, English 7%, Sotho 6%,
om/place/798019) Xhosa 6%, Ndebele 5%

798038 (http://cens Zulu 28%, Sotho 20%, Tsonga 13%, Xhosa

Lawley us2011.adrianfrith.c 33,136 6.09 8%, English 5%, Tswana 5%, Pedi 4%,
om/place/798038) Venda 4%, Afrikaans 4%

798029 (http://cens
Zulu 42%, Sotho 13%, Tsonga 12%, Xhosa
Lehae us2011.adrianfrith.c 13,380 3.50
10%, Tswana 5%
om/place/798029)
798028 (http://cens English 55%, Zulu 8%, Tswana 8%, Sotho
Lenasia us2011.adrianfrith.c 89,714 20.28 6%, Xhosa 4%, foreign languages 4%,
om/place/798028) Afrikaans 4%

798032 (http://cens
English 53%, Zulu 12%, Sotho 8%, Xhosa
Lenasia South us2011.adrianfrith.c 37,110 13.98
5%, Tswana 5%
om/place/798032)

798020 (http://cens
Lucky 7 us2011.adrianfrith.c 0 0.11 n. a.
om/place/798020)
798001 (http://cens Pedi 23%, Tswana 13%, Zulu 12%, Venda
Malatjie us2011.adrianfrith.c 2,321 0.18 12%, Ndebele 9%, Tsonga 7%, Sotho 6%,
om/place/798001) foreign languages 5%, Xhosa 4%

798009 (http://cens Pedi 24%, Zulu 18%, Xhosa 15%, Tsonga

Mayibuye us2011.adrianfrith.c 22,178 1.16 9%, Ndebele 9%, foreign languages 7%,
om/place/798009) Sotho 4%

798004 (http://cens English 50%, Zulu 10%, Afrikaans 6%,

Midrand us2011.adrianfrith.c 87,387 152.87 foreign languages 5%, Xhosa 5%, Tswana
om/place/798004) 5%, Pedi 4%, Sotho 4%
798018 (http://cens
Millgate Farm us2011.adrianfrith.c 172 0.88 n. a.
om/place/798018)

798034 (http://cens
Zulu 44%, Sotho 29%, Xhosa 9%, Tsonga
Orange Farm us2011.adrianfrith.c 76,767 12.16
4%
om/place/798034)
798040 (http://cens
Sotho 38%, Zulu 19%, Xhosa 18%, Tsonga
Poortjie us2011.adrianfrith.c 11,153 2.43
9%, Tswana 5%
om/place/798040)

798008 (http://cens Pedi 32%, Zulu 16%, Tsonga 9%, Afrikaans

Rabie Ridge us2011.adrianfrith.c 41,204 3.33 8%, Xhosa 8%, Sotho 5%, Tswana 4%,
om/place/798008) Ndebele 4%

798016 (http://cens
English 52%, Afrikaans 17%, Zulu 6%,
Randburg us2011.adrianfrith.c 337,053 167.98
foreign languages 5%, Tswana 4%
om/place/798016)
798027 (http://cens
Randfontein us2011.adrianfrith.c 0 9.19 n. a.
om/place/798027)

798023 (http://cens
Rietfontein us2011.adrianfrith.c 196 2.17 n. a.
om/place/798023)

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Area
Place Code Population Most spoken languages
(km2)
798022 (http://cens English 29%, Afrikaans 23%, Zulu 9%,
Roodepoort us2011.adrianfrith.c 326,416 161.50 Tswana 8%, Pedi 4%, Xhosa 4%, Sotho 4%,
om/place/798022) foreign languages 3%, Venda 3%

798013 (http://cens
English 63%, Afrikaans 7%, Zulu 6%, foreign
Sandton us2011.adrianfrith.c 222,415 143.54
languages 6%
om/place/798013)

Zulu 37%, Sotho 15%, Tswana 12%, Tsonga

798026 (http://cens
8%, Pedi 5%, Venda 4%, English 2%,
Soweto us2011.adrianfrith.c 1,271,628 200.03
Ndebele 1%, Afrikaans 1%, foreign
om/place/798026)
languages 1%
798036 (http://cens
Zulu 39%, Sotho 34%, Xhosa 9%, Tsonga
Stretford us2011.adrianfrith.c 61,141 7.38
4%
om/place/798036)

798025 (http://cens
Zulu 26%, Tswana 22%, Xhosa 12%, Tsonga
Tshepisong us2011.adrianfrith.c 53,260 6.56
12%, Sotho 9%, Pedi 5%, Venda 5%
om/place/798025)

798031 (http://cens
Zulu 38%, Sotho 17%, Tsonga 10%, Xhosa
Vlakfontein us2011.adrianfrith.c 27,291 4.63
9%, Tswana 6%, Pedi 4%
om/place/798031)
798030 (http://cens English 34%, Zulu 20%, Sotho 9%, Tswana
Zakariyya Park us2011.adrianfrith.c 6,200 1.96 6%, Xhosa 6%, Tsonga 5%, foreign
om/place/798030) languages 4%

798010 (http://cens
Zevenfontein us2011.adrianfrith.c 0 3.11 n. a.
om/place/798010)

Government
Each province determines the structure of local government in its region. Gauteng province, run by
the African National Congress, has opted for a Mayor–council government. The first Mayor of
Johannesburg was Amos Mosondo since the establishment of the current structure.

Regions

The administration of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality was decentralised initially
into eleven regions, named simply Region  1 to Region  11, which were largely unrelated to the 11
former apartheid administrations. The new numbered regions were subsequently consolidated, in the
summer of 2006, to seven regions named Region A to Region G. The current regions are:[26][27]

Region A - Diepsloot, Midrand and Ivory Park (previously Regions 1 and 2)

Region B - Northcliff and parts of Sandton and Rosebank (previously Region 4 and parts of
Region 3)
Region C - Roodepoort (previously, Region 5)
Region D - Soweto, Doornkop, Diepkloof and Meadowlands (previously Regions 6 and 10)
Region E - Alexandra and parts of Sandton and Rosebank (previously Region 7 and parts of
Region 3)
Region F - inner city and Johannesburg South (previously Regions 8 and 9)
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Region G - Ennerdale, Orange Farm, Lenasia, Eldorado Park

and Protea. (previously Region 11)

Each region is operationally responsible for the delivery of health

care, housing, sports and recreation, libraries, social development,
and other local community-based services, and each region has a
People's Centre where any city-related transaction can be dealt
with. Residents can lodge complaints, report service problems,
and perform council-related business more quickly.

Changes to the previous city structure

After the end of apartheid allowed the consideration of the entire

city of Johannesburg as one without consideration of race, it was
determined that the previous structure of the city was wasteful and
that there was much duplication of functions. Furthermore, some Johannesburg administrative
suburbs were affluent with well-established amenities while regions
neighbouring areas lacked even the most basic of services. The
new regions are presently smaller than previous mega-suburbs
with each being home to about 300,000 people. The idea is that smaller regions are able to stay in
closer contact with local communities.

Administration

The regions are no longer seen as part of the core administration, but instead take on a role as
contractors to the central government. The relationship is similar to that of the larger utilities and
agencies, such as City Power, and is designed to maximise efficiency.

The closeness of the new regional administrations with their communities enables them to be more
responsive to differing local needs. For instance, the needs of a high-income commercial centre such
as Sandton will be very different from the needs of a low-income area such as Orange Farm.

Local Integrated Development Plans

Local Integrated Development Plans (LIDPs) are plans for the development of a specific area. A LIDP
guides a region's future development. For this reason, the LIDP zones closely follow the boundaries of
the regions. However, in certain cases where suburbs are cut in half by the new region boundaries, the
entire suburb may be covered in only one of the regions.

LIDPs deal with city development, management and growth over a five to 10-year period. While they
deal with local issues, they take an integrated approach to issues such as transportation, housing and
environmental management. An overall Metropolitan IDP looks at the bigger picture and ensures that
LIDPs don't conflict or lead to wasted resources. LIDPs will be revised annually so as to respond to
changing conditions both locally and at a city level.

City council

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As of the August 2016 municipal elections, the municipal council consists of 270 City Councillors (htt
p://www.joburg.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7401:joburgs-councillors&
catid=84:how-it-works&Itemid=131) in Johannesburg elected by mixed-member proportional
representation. The Councillors are divided into two kinds: (a) 135 Ward councillors who have been
elected by first-past-the-post voting in 135 wards; and (b) 135 councillors elected from party lists (so
that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received).

Ward Councillors have more local responsibilities, including setting up Ward Committees in their
wards to raise local issues, commenting on town planning and other local matters in their ward, and
liaising with local ratepayers' and residents' associations. PR Councillors are usually allocated to more
political tasks within their party structures and within the city.

Elections

In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won the largest share of the
seats on the council with 91 but once again did not achieve a majority. The DA won the speaker and
mayoral position during the council meeting held on the 22 November 2021. Vasco da Gama (council
speaker) and Mpho Phalatse were elected respectively. On the 26 January 2023, Phalatse was
removed from office through a motion of no confidence. She was succeeded by Al-Jama-ah councillor
Thapelo Amad.[28] Amad's tenure was short-lived and he resigned in April 2023. Kabelo Gwamanda,
also of Al-Jama-ah, was elected to succeed him.[29]

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.[30][31][32]

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City of Johannesburg local election, 1 November 2021

Votes Seats
Party
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
African National Congress 313,387 306,902 620,289 33.6 87 4 91

Democratic Alliance 247,533 235,120 482,653 26.1 43 28 71

ActionSA 128,986 167,359 296,345 16.1 0 44 44

Economic Freedom Fighters 102,751 93,412 196,163 10.6 0 29 29

Patriotic Alliance 26,830 27,346 54,176 2.9 2 6 8

Inkatha Freedom Party 21,743 21,801 43,544 2.4 2 5 7

Freedom Front Plus 12,428 12,243 24,671 1.3 0 4 4

African Christian Democratic Party 9,999 9,469 19,468 1.1 0 3 3

Al Jama-ah 9,961 7,647 17,608 1.0 1 2 3

Independent candidates 11,904 – 11,904 0.6 0 – 0

African Independent Congress 4,619 6,341 10,960 0.6 0 2 2

African Heart Congress 4,341 3,938 8,279 0.4 0 1 1

Good 3,684 3,089 6,773 0.4 0 1 1

African Transformation Movement 3,660 2,974 6,634 0.4 0 1 1

United Democratic Movement 2,291 2,218 4,509 0.2 0 1 1

Congress of the People 2,297 1,779 4,076 0.2 0 1 1

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania 1,512 2,467 3,979 0.2 0 1 1

United Independent Movement 1,263 1,162 2,425 0.1 0 1 1

African People's Convention 1,212 1,065 2,277 0.1 0 1 1

38 other parties 12,064 17,392 29,456 1.6 0 0 0

Total 922,465 923,724 1,846,189 135 135 270

Valid votes 922,465 923,724 1,846,189 98.7

Spoilt votes 11,432 11,975 23,407 1.3

Total votes cast 933,897 935,699 1,869,596

Voter turnout 947,305

Registered voters 2,220,710

Turnout percentage 42.7

Service provision
The city management team head office is the Metro Centre Complex in Braamfontein, which is
responsible for overall administration, financial control, supply of services, and collection of revenues.
The fire department and ambulances, the metropolitan police and traffic control, museums, art
galleries, and heritage sites are all controlled by separate departments.
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Some of the key city service functions are supplied by separate, self-contained entities, each run on
business lines with its own CEO.

There are 10 utilities, including electricity which is run by City Power Johannesburg, water and
sanitation which is run by Johannesburg Water, and solid waste management, also known as Pikitup.
Utilities are registered companies, run on business lines. They must be self-funding, receiving no
annual grants from the city. They provide billable services direct to individual households.

Agencies include Johannesburg Roads Agency, City Parks and Johannesburg Development Agency.
Each of these performs a service to the public at large – there are no direct charges to individual
consumers. These are also structured as separate companies, but they are reliant on the council for
funding.

The zoo, Civic Theatre, bus service, fresh produce market and property company each compete in the
open market to "sell" their wares to individual consumers who choose to pay for their services. These
departments have been "corporatised" into separate businesses, run by new managements on
performance contracts, and tasked to cut their subsidy levels by R100-million in the next five years.

See also
Johannesburg
Johannesburg City Parks

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External links
Official website of the City of Johannesburg (http://www.joburg.org.za/)
Johannesburg Water (http://www.johannesburgwater.co.za/)
Johannesburg City Parks (http://www.jhbcityparks.com)
Pikitup (http://www.pikitup.co.za/)
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11061241/http://www.mbus.co.za/) 11 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine
City Power Johannesburg (http://www.citypower.co.za/)
Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market (http://www.joburgmarket.co.za/)
City of Johannesburg (https://web.archive.org/web/20031201195926/http://johannesburg.info/)

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