The Municipal Demarcation Board is an independent authority responsible for delimiting the boundaries of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
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districts and
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
and the boundaries of the
electoral wards within those municipalities.
General
The Board was envisaged in section 155.(2)(b) of the
Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
When these pri ...
, and created by th
Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, 1998 It consists of nine board members, appointed by the
President for a five-year term. Except for the chairperson, the members of the Board serve on a part-time basis. There is also a small support staff for administration and research.
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See also
In other countries demarcation can be called
redistricting
Redistricting in the United States is the process of drawing electoral district boundaries. For the United States House of Representatives, and state legislatures, redistricting occurs after each ten-year census.
The U.S. Constitution in Art ...
or
redistribution.
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Government agencies of South Africa
Municipalities of South Africa