resetting indent Its all just definitions and administrative boundaries Municipality  city each country has different terms  I think Greater London might have some parallels  A single mayor a nowdefunct City of London which has almost no population only   The difference is London is administered through different boroughs  No such legal divisions exist within Polokwane municipality  Comparisons with other countries are difficult none of them have these crazy and inefficient citytownship patterns that are left over from apartheid  But to answer your key question I do believe that it is the intent of these changes to create new cities municipalities which include both halves of a previously divided city So yes a resident of Seshego is now recognized as a fully fledged first class resident of the brand new City of Polokwane  Political Opinion  Just for insight into my perspectives  Before you criticise a man you should walk a mile in his shoes  I think that understanding the perspective and rationale of these changes is helpful to bring them into context The western and white media always portray name changes as destructive political games But take a moment to consider the other side You are a resident of Atteridgeville  Your livelihood is in Pretoria you have worked for  years as a car mechanic and your job requires you to travel km each day into Pretoria  No public transport is provided your roads arent paved and you dont have running water in your home   hours of every day for  years is taken up with a lengthy and unsafe commute  Even more frustratingly there are thousands of square kilometers of open land far nearer to your job but only white people are allowed to build on it  None of them want to live on it but the white people simply prefer a suitably large buffer between where they live and where you live  In  a new government vows to put an end to this system  The recognize that instead of only  whites the real city constitutes  million people  The fact that  million of them live outside the traditional city limits is not their fault  they fought against that system for  years  Now they have to manage it  The first thing they do is redefine the city  It includes everyone who works and makes a living there even though most of them live in satellite settlements needlessly far away  They promise the same basic services and infrastructure to everyone  Now theyre sitting with  million people in a metropol or a municipality or a city Call it what you will  What do they call this new entity They could call it Pretoria the name that the previous government put on the map despite the fact that it is smaller in population than any of the surrounding cities  Or they could call it Atteridgeville or Soshanguve but those names are equally inappropriate  They need a new name one which represents and includes people from all the disparate parts which make up this disfunctional entity  They ask the local population for names that they already use for the entire area  Many call it Tshwane  They proudly decide that their new city will go by that name and hope for a better future  And the white population of Pretoria leading their lives and mostly unaware of any of this except when their maid tells them that she was late because the taxis were on strike all cry out as one  Rename Pretoria to Tshwane Oh why oh why do you persecute us so  End Political Opinion   This is not usually appropriate for the talk page of a wikipedia page but I write it because Ive at one time felt and understood many of the same points being made by the posters to these articles and Ive found that trying to understand both sides is very helpful to discern the intent of the changes and therefore the facts behind them