Talk:Transitional representative council (South Africa)

Distinction between transitional councils in general, and transitional representative councils specifically.

This article is not correct about the nature of the transitional representative councils. What it is actually describing (where it says things like "Every proclaimed village, town or city had its own transitional representative council") is transitional councils in general. Transitional representative councils were one particular type of transitional council; they were established in rural areas with no existing municipality to represent rural areas on the district council. See, for example, this COGTA document which describes the Local Government Transition Act and the types of council established under the act; or section 5.3.6 of this thesis on the local government transition.

I realise this article probably only exists because of the anomalous case of Orania, but perhaps it would be better replaced by an article dealing with the whole local government transition process, including all the varieties of transitional metropolitan/local/district/rural/representative councils. The Orania details would then stay on the article Orania Representative Council, where they are largely already discussed. - htonl (talk) 22:17, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the article with more information, is this what you meant? I90Christian (talk) 12:09, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's pretty much what I meant, your edits make sense. I might still try to write an overall article about the local government transition, in which case we could perhaps incorporate this article into that. - htonl (talk) 12:29, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]