City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
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City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (short: City of Johannesburg ) is a metropolitan municipality in the South African province of Gauteng. It was formed from previously independent municipalities. Currently City of Johannesburg has over 4,434,827 inhabitants in 1,434,856 households.
Dimension and meaning
City of Johannesburg is in Africa is the most economically important metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa and is among the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world. In terms of their geographical location embodies the City of Johannesburg, the world's largest contiguous urban area that are not located on a lake, a river or a coast.
Within South Africa, it has an enormous political importance, as it houses the highest court of the State, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. In addition, the City of Johannesburg through the adjacent international airport and the resident large companies as a metropolitan region have a significant effect beyond the borders of South Africa and the continent beyond.
Administrative sites
The central administrative headquarters of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Johannesburg is located on the Braamfontein Hill in the same inner-city district of Johannesburg. It is located north of the city center and right next to Constitution Hill. The district with the monumental administrative building, the Civic Centre or Metropolitan Centre, is surrounded by four streets. This is in the north of the Hoofd Street, in the east the Joubert Street, in the south of the De Korte Street and to the west the Loveday Street.
For the greatest possible proximity and on the principle of decentralized management structure, the City of Johannesburg in its seven regions shall keep several regional administrations.
Structure
The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is divided into seven administrative partitions, and as regions ( The seven regions) are identified by a respective letter code. Consequently, there are regions from A to G.
On the territory of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Johannesburg are urban centers, such as Alexandra, Diepkloof, Diepsloot, Ennerdale, Johannesburg, Johannesburg South, Lawley, Lenasia, Lenasia South, Meadowlands East, Meadowlands West, Midrand, Orange Farm, Pimville, Randburg, Roodepoort, Sandton and Soweto.
Former administrative divisions
The greater community of Johannesburg was divided between the years 2000 and 2006 in eleven districts.
Region 1
- Diepsloot
- Kya sand
Region 2
- Midrand
- Ivory Park
Region 3
- Bryanston
- Douglasdale
- Fourways
- Randburg
- Sandton
- Strijdompark
- Sunninghill
- Woodmead
Region 4
- Emmarentia
- Greenside
- Melville
- Northcliff
- Rosebank
- Parktown
- Parktown North
Region 5
- Roodepoort
- Constantia Kloof
- Northgate
Region 6
- Doornkop
- Soweto
- Dobsonville
- Protea Glen
Region 7
- Alexandra
- Wynberg
- Bruma
Region 8
- Inner City
Region 9
- Johannesburg South
- City Deep
- Aeroton
- Southgate
Region 10
- Meadowlands
- Diepkloof
Region 11
- Orange Farm
- Ennerdale
- Lenasia
Traffic
Rail transport
The main railway station is located in the center of Johannesburg and is operated by PRASA. The Gautrain rail system serves several stations on the territory of the metropolitan municipality and extends into the adjacent Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.
Road
In addition to a very dense regional road network, the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality reach several regional and efficient road connections, some of which they traverse. The national road N1, N3, N12, N14 and N17 as well as their tapered Metro freeways as a kind of urban highway, these were the main arteries of traffic.
For public transport the city's bus company Metrobus (Johannesburg Metropolitan Bus Service ) offers numerous routes on the territory of the metropolitan community. It is the second largest municipal bus operator in South Africa, with a fleet of 532 buses in total, who operates 80 public lines and 130 routes to school travel on routes. With approximately 90,000 daily passengers Metrobus makes a significant contribution to the profession and school transport mainly for commuters from the fringes of the City of Johannesburg. The tariff system is divided into six zones. A special section of the bus company is responsible for the special service area of Metrobus for people with physical disabilities. On six routes from the center of the main outdoor areas there is this service vehicles with specially marked. It involves a specific standard equipment on the lines primarily for commuters with physical disabilities, such as boarding ramps for wheelchairs and special wheel chairs seats with seat belts for stable locking in the passenger compartment of the bus.
In addition to a high proportion of inter-regional transit metropolitan community has a considerable volume of source and destination traffic. For the handling of goods in the region, the City Deep Container Terminal has a central function with international networking.
Airports
The OR Tambo International Airport in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality lies to the east, close to the border with the City of Johannesburg and is verkehrlich well developed. Furthermore, there are in the north, not far from Diepsloot and Sandton, the Lanseria International Airport. The transport connection is the R512, which crosses south of the airport, the National Road N14. South on the Rand Airport in Germiston and only smaller planes can beyond the metropolitan municipality of the City of Johannesburg land. He can be reached via the national road N3 and N17.
Economy
The focus of the acquisition economics in the field of metropolitan municipality located in the areas of finance and a variety of other services, wholesale and retail, municipal and social services as well as in the manufacturing sector. Nevertheless, the unemployment rate is 25%.
Selected attractions
On the territory of the metropolitan community, especially in Johannesburg, there are many cultural institutions and museums. Together they form one of the largest cultural priorities of the country.
- Johannesburg Art Gallery ( Johannesburg Joubert Park )
- Museum Africa ( Johannesburg Newtown )
- Apartheid Museum ( Johannesburg Ormonde )
- Hector Pieterson Museum ( Soweto Orlando West )
- James Hall Transport Museum (Johannesburg - Springfield )
- Bern Mountain Museum of Costume ( Johannesburg Newtown )
- South African National Museum of Military History (Johannesburg, Saxonwold )
- Liliesleaf Farm ( Sandton - Rivonia )
- Nelson Mandela National Museum ( Soweto Orlando West )
- Melville Koppies Nature Reserve Municipal ( Johannesburg Melville )
- The Johannesburg Botanical Garden ( Johannesburg Emmarentia )
- Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden ( Roodepoort )
- Rietfontein Ridge Municipal Nature Reserve ( Sandton Paulshof )
- The Norscot Koppies Kingfisher Nature Reserve ( Sandton Fourways )
- Waverley Park (Johannesburg - North Highlands )
Weblink
- City of Johannesburg. official on www.joburg.org.za (English) website