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The official opposition in the Western Cape after the 2004 provincial election was the Democratic Alliance (DA), which received 27% of the vote in the provincial ballot. The City of Cape Town, the most populous municipality in the province, was governed by a multi-party coalition led by the DA after the 2006 municipal elections.
The council of the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape, South Africa is elected every five years by a system of mixed-member proportional representation.Half of the councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting from individual wards, while the other half are appointed from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
Cape Town first received local self-government in 1839, with the promulgation of a municipal ordinance by the government of the Cape Colony. [4] When it was created, the Cape Town municipality governed only the central part of the city known as the City Bowl, and as the city expanded, new suburbs became new municipalities, until by 1902 there were 10 separate municipalities in the Cape ...
The Western Cape Provincial Parliament, situated in Cape Town, is the legislative branch of the provincial government. The parliament is a unicameral legislature of 42 members, elected by a system of party-list proportional representation.
Since 2009 he is the mayoral committee member responsible for safety and security in the Democratic Alliance-led Cape Town city council. [1] [2] In 2021, he was elected deputy interim provincial leader of the DA in the Western Cape. Smith was elected as one of three deputy federal chairpersons of the party's congress in 2023.
The National Coloured Congress (NCC; previously the Cape Coloured Congress, CCC) is a South African political party led by Fadiel Adams, the founder of the Gatvol Capetonian Movement. The party was formed in August 2020 and focuses on issues affecting Coloured South Africans , initially in the Western Cape , [ 2 ] and later nationally.
The Western Cape Provincial Parliament (WCPP) is the legislature of the Western Cape province of South Africa.It is located at 7 Wale Street in Cape Town.. The Provincial Parliament, along with the other provincial legislatures of South Africa, exists by virtue of Chapter 6 of the Constitution of South Africa and Chapter 3 of the Constitution of the Western Cape.
The Executive Council of the Western Cape is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of the Western Cape.The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Western Cape Provincial Legislature by the Premier of the Western Cape, an office held since the 2019 general election by Alan Winde.