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Tshwane

British  
/ ˈtʃwɒnɪ /

noun

  1. another name for Pretoria

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Cilliers Brink, a Democratic Alliance politician who was mayor of Tshwane, the municipality that manages Hammanskraal, says a potential solution could be for the local government to buy its own tankers.

From BBC Mar. 19, 2026

The City of Tshwane Municipality, which takes in Pretoria and surrounding areas, has had at least five different mayors since the ruling African National Congress party lost control in local government elections in 2016.

From Seattle Times May 24, 2023

"The issue of water in Tshwane has been a problem for a number of years," South Africa's Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation David Mahlobo said in a briefing.

From Reuters May 22, 2023

In a peer-reviewed paper released Tuesday, South African researchers again underscored “decreased severity of disease” after studying data of 466 covid-19 patients recently hospitalized in Tshwane, a metropolitan area that was badly hit by omicron.

From Washington Post Dec. 31, 2021

“Of recent hospitalizations 87% have been unvaccinated, 13% have been vaccinated,” Jassat said of the 455 hospital admissions in the Tshwane area in the past two weeks.

From Washington Times Nov. 29, 2021

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