The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality's land area increased from 2,198 square kilometres (849 sq mi)[6] in 2010 to 6,368 square kilometres (2,459 sq mi) after the incorporation of Metsweding, making it the largest Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa.

OR Tambo International Airport in neighbouring Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality serves Tshwane.

The city of Tshwane hosted the 10th World Choir Games, organised by the Interkultur Foundation, between 4–14 July 2018.

[13] Various locations across the city were used as venues to host concerts and ceremonies for the event, including the Musaion and Aula theatres at the University of Pretoria, the ZK Matthews Great Hall at the University of South Africa, and the Pretoria State Theatre.

The state-controlled SABC also started using the term in its evening news broadcasts, for a period, but by 2010, had reverted to "Pretoria".

The Pretoria News, the main newspaper in the metropolitan area did not appear to have plans to change its name as of early 2006, although it has adopted the slogan "The paper for the people of Tshwane".

[21] The legal process involved is as follows:[citation needed] Some groups attached themselves to the Pretoria name change issue, including the trade union Solidarity, which,[22] along with the Pretoria Civil Action Committee, threatened legal action should the name change be recommended by the minister.

In early August 2007, it was reported in the press that the municipality, after consulting with the Gauteng provincial government had withdrawn the application to change the name, and was instead contemplating a plan to change all road signs pointing to "Pretoria" to "Tshwane" or the "City of Tshwane" across the country.

This plan raised threats of legal action from both political groupings opposed to the renaming, and concerns from municipal officials about the possibility of vandalism to the proposed signs.

[23][24] In 2010, the Ministry of Arts and Culture prepared to publish the registration of Tshwane as a place name, in the Government Gazette.

[25] In November 2011, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, who had been elected mayor earlier that year, vowed to push forward with the renaming in 2012.

This was expected to increase the metro's income levels, cash flow and capacity for service delivery.

In 2021, its debt with Eskom stood at over R200 million, and the utility labeled it as a municipality with a poor payment record.

[33] In February 2022, its debtors book stood at R17 billion[34] and Tshwane implemented the Tshwane Yatima project to disconnect the power and/or water supply to 420 businesses, besides that of some state departments (Public Works and Infrastructure owing R355 million[35]) and embassies, SARS, the Navy and SAPS headquarters and Hatfield Gautrain station due to non-payment of their electricity or municipal accounts.