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About half of the residents of the municipality live in Stellenbosch and its suburbs, which have a total population of 77,476. [4] The second-largest town is Franschhoek with 15,616 residents. [5] Klapmuts (pop. 7,703) is situated on the northern edge of the municipality next to the N1 national road.
The municipality covers an area of 1,645 square kilometres (635 sq mi), stretching from Orange Farm in the south to Midrand in the north, and contains two big urban centres, Johannesburg and Midrand, and nine more smaller urban centres, namely Roodepoort, Diepsloot, Killarney, Melrose Arch, Randburg, Rosebank, Sandton, Soweto, and Sunninghill.
Oudtshoorn Local Municipality: WC045 Garden Route Oudtshoorn: 3,540 97,509 27.5 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 ...
By 2019–20 Gauteng province had the most service delivery protests (some 23%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (c.21%), the Western Cape (c.20%), Eastern Cape (c.15%) and Mpumalanga (c.9%). Discontent often revolves around the demand for housing and free basic services, especially when community members are displaced or suffer the loss of income.
Metsweding District Municipality: DC46: Gauteng: 18 May 2011: Annexed by City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality: Nokeng tsa Taemane Local Municipality: GT461: Gauteng: 18 May 2011 Kungwini Local Municipality: GT462: Gauteng: 18 May 2011 Randfontein Local Municipality: GT482: Gauteng: 3 August 2016: Merged to create Rand West City Local ...
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]
Stellenbosch (/ ˈ s t ɛ l ə n b ɒ s /; [3] Afrikaans: [ˈstælənˌbɔs]) [4] [5] is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated about 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Cape Town, along the banks of the Eerste River at the foot of the Stellenbosch Mountain.
A district municipality or Category C municipality is a municipality which executes some of the functions of local government for a district. The district municipality will in turn comprise several local municipalities , with which it shares the functions of local government.