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In South Africa, District Management Area (DMA) was the name given to areas within a
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that did not fall within any local municipality, and received municipal services directly from the district. Since the
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all of mainland South Africa has been covered by local (or metropolitan) municipalities, and there are therefore no DMAs. The DMAs were primarily national parks and nature reserves, or in western parts of
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are isolated areas of very low population density. The table shows the 2007
census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
population of the DMAs.Statistics South Africa - Community Survey, 2007. Basic Results: Municipalities


See also

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Metropolitan municipality (South Africa) In South Africa, a metropolitan municipality or Category A municipality is a municipality which executes all the functions of local government for a city or conurbation. This is by contrast to areas which are primarily rural, where the local go ...
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District municipality (South Africa) The nine provinces of South Africa are divided into 52 districts (sing. district, tn, kgaolo; st, setereke; nso, selete; af, distrikte; zu, isifunda; nr, isiyingi; xh, isithili; ss, sigodzi; ve, tshiá¹±iriki; ts, xifundza), which are e ...
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Local municipality (South Africa) In South Africa, a local municipality ( tn, mmasepalaselegae; st, masepala wa lehae; nso, mmasepala wa selegae; af, plaaslike munisipaliteit; zu, umasipala wendawo; nr, umasipaladi wendawo; xh, umasipala wengingqi; ss, masipaladi wasekhay ...


References

District Municipalities of South Africa {{SouthAfrica-geo-stub