MUNICIPAL DEMACATION BOARD
Municipalities in Pretoria

The Municipal Demarcation Board is an independent authority responsible for the determination of municipal boundaries. Members of the provincial executive councils (MECs) determined the boundaries on the advice of provincial demarcation boards. The new Constitution, adopted in 1996, required National legislation to establish criteria for determining when an area should have a single category A municipality or when it should have municipalities of both category B and category C; and to establish criteria and procedures for the determination of municipal boundaries by an independent authority. It was a piece of legislation that gave birth to an independent constitutional body, the Municipal Demarcation Board, which was established and mandated to demarcate municipal boundaries of the entire territory of the Republic. Interactions between the delegates and panel members in a Q&A session. Enabling and facilitating a system of developmental local government, through the determination of municipal and ward boundaries that enhances the quality of life of communities, overall\. Providing advisory services, in municipal boundaires matters, to state entities and other stakeholders\. Being a spatial knowledge hub on all municipal and ward boundary matters. Section 3 provides that the Board is a juristic person, is independent and must be impartial and must perform its function without fear, favour or prejudice. Section 4 provides that the Board must determine Municipal boundaries in accordance with this Act and other appropriate legislation enacted in terms of Chapter 7 of the Constitution, and must render an advisory service in respect of matters provided for in this act and other appropriate legislation. In terms of section 85 the Board must consider the capacity of District and Local municipalities to perform their function and to exercise their powers, and provide advice to MEC’s responsible for Local Government. In 1998 Cabinet resolved that departmental service delivery boundaries must be aligned to constitutional boundaries (National, Provincial and Local) and should be finalised by departments in consultation with the Municipal Demarcation Board.