Local municipality in Northern Cape, South Africa
Sol Plaatje Municipality (Afrikaans: Sol Plaatje Munisipaliteit; Tswana: Mmasepala wa Sol Plaatje) is a local municipality within the Frances Baard District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is named after Sol T. Plaatje. It includes the diamond mining city of Kimberley.
Main places
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-three wards, while the remaining thirty-two are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.[5][6]
Mayors
- Maria Chwarisang
- Patrick Lenyibi
- Patrick Everyday
- Agnes Ntlhangula
- David Molusi[7]
- Mangaliso Matika[8][9]
- Pule Thabane[10]
- Patrick Mabilo[11]
- Kagisho Dante Sonyoni
References
- ^ "PICS: Sol Plaatje Municipality's youngest mayor sworn in". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ "Sol Plaatje Local Municipality". Census 2011.
- ^ "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). Electoral Commission of South Africa. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "Seat Calculation Detail" (PDF). Electoral Commission of South Africa. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Halata, C. 2013. City gets new mayor: Molusi takes over Sol. Diamond Fields Advertiser 19 Dec 2013 pp 1-2
- ^ New Mayor for Sol Plaatje Diamond Fields Advertiser 22 August 2016, p1
- ^ "Sol Plaatje Municipality mayor Matika removed". 25 July 2018.
- ^ "75 schools closed in Kimberley as violent protests pick up - The Mail & Guardian". 30 July 2018.
- ^ KwonHoo, Sandi (29 November 2018). "Mabilo is new mayor". DFA. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
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