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Map of the wards into which South Africa is divided. In South Africa, wards are geopolitical subdivisions of municipalities used for electoral purposes. Each metropolitan and local municipality is delimited by the Municipal Demarcation Board into half as many wards as there are seats on the municipal council (rounding up if there are an odd number of seats).
The municipal council consists of eighteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining nine are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
The municipalities of South Africa as of 2016. This is a list of municipalities of South Africa.The largest metropolitan areas are governed by metropolitan municipalities, while the rest of the country is divided into district municipalities, each of which consists of several local municipalities.
Wards are delimited by the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB). [3] This entails the division of the whole geographic area of a municipality into smaller geographic areas, called wards. Schedule 1 to the Structures Act, 1998 provides for certain procedures and criteria to which the MDB must comply.
Municipal boundaries of South Africa, as demarcated by the Municipal Demarcation Board. The Municipal Demarcation Board is an independent authority responsible for delimiting the boundaries of South African districts and municipalities and the boundaries of the electoral wards within those municipalities.
KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities.
Name Code Seat Area (km²) [1] Population (2016) [2] Pop. density (per km²) Fezile Dabi District Municipality: DC20 Sasolburg: 20,668 494,777 23.9 Lejweleputswa District Municipality
The following map depicts the provinces and districts of South Africa. The district municipalities are labelled with numbers that correspond to their district code, while the metropolitan municipalities are labelled with letters that correspond to their names. Further details of the districts are listed in the table that follows the image.