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The municipality covers an area of 831 square kilometres (321 sq mi) around the towns of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.To the west and southwest it extends as far as the urban edge of the Cape Town metropolitan area, while to the east and southeast it is bounded by mountain ranges.
The DA retained control of the municipality, albeit with a smaller majority in the municipal council. [14] On 15 November 2021, Van Deventer was re-elected as mayor for a second five-year term. Her re-election made history as she is the first mayor of the Stellenbosch municipality to serve two consecutive terms. [15]
Overstrand Local Municipality: WC032 Overberg Hermanus: 1,675 93,407 55.8 Prince Albert Local Municipality: WC052 Central Karoo Prince Albert: 8,153 14,272 1.8 Saldanha Bay Local Municipality: WC014 West Coast Vredenburg: 2,015 111,173 55.2 Stellenbosch Local Municipality: WC024 Cape Winelands Stellenbosch: 831 173,197 208.4 Swartland Local ...
The City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality is the local council for the Cape Town metropolitan area, which contains two-thirds of the province's population. The rest of the province is divided into five district municipalities which are subdivided into twenty-four local municipalities .
The Stellenbosch Local Municipality council consists of forty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Twenty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-two wards, while the remaining twenty-one are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
Lekwa Municipality has been taken to court by businesses around Standerton for failing to provide clean and sufficient water and electricity. These service interruptions were due to its soaring debt to Eskom (R1.1 billion by 2020 [ 17 ] ), and its non-payment for services provided by the Department of Water and Sanitation .
The Stellenbosch Municipality extends beyond the town of Stellenbosch itself to include rural areas, villages, and the town of Franschhoek. At the time of the 2011 census, the municipal population was 155,728, while by 2016 it was estimated to be 173,197. [24] In 2017, the municipality estimated that the population in 2018 would increase to ...
In South Africa, a metropolitan municipality or Category A municipality is a municipality which executes all the functions of local government for a city or conurbation. This is by contrast to areas which are primarily rural, where the local government is divided into district municipalities and local municipalities .