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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 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.
From the 2013 general elections onwards Kenya will have three classes of local authorities: City, Municipality, and Town authorities. Subject to the Urban Areas and Cities Act of 2011, there are four authorities with city status: Nairobi , the national capital, Mombasa , Kisumu and Nakuru .
Drakenstein Municipality (Afrikaans: Drakenstein Munisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Drakenstein) is a local municipality located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2011, it had a population of 251,262. [3] Its municipality code is WC023.
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]
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 .
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 ...
Stellenbosch (6 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Populated places in the Stellenbosch Local Municipality" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.