Constituent areas

The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality consists of the following areas:^[7]

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[8]

Ethnic group 2011 census

Ethnic group 2011 census (age 0–4)

The Executive

The political head of the municipality is the executive mayor. As of March 2023, Cilliers Brink of the Democratic Alliance serves as mayor.^[12] The mayor appoints a mayoral committee to assist with him/her with the functioning of the municipality.

Water and sanitation

As of 2016, City of Tshwane receives 72% of its bulk water from Rand Water, which utilizes the Integrated Vaal River System. The remaining 28% of Tshwane's water is sourced from its own treatment plants and boreholes. Water restrictions are implemented during drought, heat waves or other seasonal changes.

Transport

Education

Air Force

The South African Air Force military bases AFB Waterkloof and AFB Swartkop are in Centurion.

Thaba Tshwane Military Base

Thaba Tshwane military base (formerly called Voortrekkerhoogte and before that Roberts Heights) is in the municipality.

Memorials

The SANDF memorial is at Fort Klapperkop and the South African Air Force memorial is at AFB Swartkop.

Media

Museums

There are a large number of museums, many of them in Pretoria.

• Pretoria Forts
• Kruger House (residence of the president of the ZAR, Paul Kruger)
• Mapungubwe Collection
• Melrose House (the Treaty of Vereeniging which ended the Anglo-Boer War was signed here in 1902)
• Voortrekker Monument
• Freedom Park
• Transvaal Museum
• African Window
• South African Air Force Museum

Festivals

The city of Tshwane hosted the 10th World Choir Games, organised by the Interkultur Foundation, between 4–14 July 2018.^[13] Various locations across the city were used as venues to host concerts and ceremonies for the event, including the Musaion and Aula theatres at the University of Pretoria, the ZK Matthews Great Hall at the University of South Africa, and the Pretoria State Theatre.^[14] The event was the first of its kind on the African continent.^[13]

Sporting venues

• Lucas Moripe Stadium, Atteridgeville
• HM Pitje Stadium, Mamelodi
• Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
• SuperSport Park, Centurion
• Odi Stadium, Mabopane
• Giant Stadium, Soshanguve

Scout Groups

• 1st Nan Hau Scout Group
• 5th Hillcrest/Colbyn Scout Group
• 6th St Andrews Scout Group
• 7th Mamelodi Scout Group
• 8th St Albans Scout Group
• 9th Irene Air Scout Group
• 10th Arcadia Scout Group
• 13th St Patricks Scout Group
• 14th Delp Scout Group
• 22nd Waterkloof / Kosmos Sea Scout Group
• 23rd Lyttleton Scout Group
• 35th Pretoria Sea Scout Group
• 36th Sinoville Scout Group
• 37th Springvale Scout Group
• 40th Glenstantia Scout Group
• 41st Parks Scout Group
• 42nd Laudium Scout Group
• 46th Midstream Scout Group

Sport

The city is home to the Tshwane Suns who compete in South Africa's highest basketball division, the Basketball National League.^[15][16] There are two Premier Soccer League teams, Mamelodi Sundowns and Supersport United. Pretoria University, known as Tuks plays in the second-tier league. Tshwane is also home to the Blue Bulls rugby team.

Proposed renaming of Pretoria

On 5 December 2000, a number of former Pretoria municipalities, as well as others that fell outside the Greater Pretoria area, were combined into one area called the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.^[5] The city of Pretoria remained largely intact in this municipality. ^{[clarification needed]} On 26 May 2005, the South African Geographical Names Council unanimously approved a recommendation by the Tshwane Metro Council that the name Pretoria be changed to Tshwane, but approval from the Geographical Names Council is only a preliminary step in the process.^[21]

The legal process involved is as follows:^{[citation needed]}

1. Recommendation to the Geographical Names Council.
2. Council approves/rejects recommendation (approved 26 May 2005).
3. Council gives its recommendation to the Arts and Culture Minister.
4. Minister approves/rejects recommendation.
5. Approved/rejected name is published in the Government Gazette.
6. Any person or body unhappy with the name change can complain within one month of above.
7. The minister can consult the Geographical Names Council with concerns raised.
8. The minister's decision, along with the reasons for it, are published
9. The minister will then take the matter before parliament where the central government will decide on whether to change the name or not based on the information before it.

Some groups attached themselves to the Pretoria name change issue, including the trade union Solidarity, which,^[22] along with the Pretoria Civil Action Committee, threatened legal action should the name change be recommended by the minister. In early August 2007, it was reported in the press that the municipality, after consulting with the Gauteng provincial government had withdrawn the application to change the name, and was instead contemplating a plan to change all road signs pointing to "Pretoria" to "Tshwane" or the "City of Tshwane" across the country. This plan raised threats of legal action from both political groupings opposed to the renaming, and concerns from municipal officials about the possibility of vandalism to the proposed signs.^[23][24]

In 2010, the Ministry of Arts and Culture prepared to publish the registration of Tshwane as a place name, in the Government Gazette. However, the registration was withdrawn at the last minute, which was explained by the minister. ^{[clarification needed] [why?]} Although it was too late to remove the name from printing in the Government Gazette, the retraction of the name registration was published the following week in the gazette.^[25] In November 2011, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, who had been elected mayor earlier that year, vowed to push forward with the renaming in 2012.^[26]