Editing Polokwane (section)

=== Since 1994 ===
The [[town]] officially became a [[city]] on 23 April 1992 and on 27 April 1994, it became the capital of the newly formed Northern Transvaal province (Later changed to "Northern province" and thereafter Limpopo) following the [[1994 South African general election|1994 South African general elections]].  On 25 February 2005, [[List of renamed places in South Africa|the government declared the official name of the city as Polokwane]], a name that was generally in use by the speakers of [[Northern Sotho language|Northern Sotho (Sepedi)]]. The city was host to the [[52nd National Conference of the African National Congress|52nd national conference of the African National Congress]],  held in December 2007 at the [[University of Limpopo]] and saw [[Jacob Zuma]] voted as President of the [[African National Congress|ANC]], beating former president [[Thabo Mbeki]].<ref>{{cite news |date=19 December 2007 |url=http://www.economist.com/node/10328276 |title=South Africa: Zuma comes out on top |newspaper=The Economist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/52nd-anc-national-conference-polokwane-2007|title=The 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007 {{!}} South African History Online|website=www.sahistory.org.za|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref> 

Today the city of Polokwane has seen respectable development in terms of its infrastructure and services as provides a wide variety of shopping venues and malls, restaurants, entertainment venues, religious venues, civic halls, as well as modern housing developments and office buildings.