`  (resetting indent) It's 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 now-defunct City of London which has almost no population (only 8000).  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 city/township 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 20 years as a car mechanic, and your job requires you to travel 30km each day into Pretoria.  No public transport is provided, your roads aren't paved and you don't have running water in your home.  2 hours of every day for 20 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 1994, a new government vows to put an end to this system.  The recognize that instead of only 500,000 whites, the real city constitutes 3 million people.  The fact that 2.5 million of them live outside the traditional ``city limits`` is not their fault - they fought against that system for 40 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 they're sitting with 3 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 I've at one time felt and understood many of the same points being made by the posters to these articles, and I've found that trying to understand both sides is very helpful to discern the intent of the changes, and therefore the facts behind them.   `