Transitional representative council (South Africa)

A transitional representative council (Afrikaans: Verteenwoordigende oorgangsraad) is a local administrative division in South Africa.

After apartheid these transitional councils were created as a provisional local representation until the formation of a more final municipal structure.

Transitional representative councils were the default type of local government for small and rural communities.

In late 1999 it became clear what transitional representative councils - with their local bodies - would merge into one municipality.

The abolition of the transitional representative councils effectively took place at 5 December 2000, during the South African municipal elections of 2000.

This lawsuit was handled by the Northern Cape High Court on 4 December 2000, one day before the nationwide local elections.