Stellenbosch Local Municipality
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Stellenbosch Local Municipality (also known as Stellenbosch Municipality) is the local municipality
that governs the towns of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Pniel, and the surrounding rural areas, in the Western Cape
province of South Africa
. It covers an area of 831 square kilometres (320.9 sq mi) and, , had a population of 200,524 people in 36,413 households. It falls within the Cape Winelands District Municipality
.
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In the local government elections of 2000, the Democratic Alliance (DA) came to power in Stellenbosch. The administration was short-lived, however, and in October 2002, an African National Congress
(ANC) and New National Party (NNP) coalition took over the council when four councillors defected from the DA and a local community party during a floor-crossing period. Willie Ortell (NNP) was elected mayor and GW Adonis (ANC) was chosen as deputy mayor.
After the next local government elections in 2006, a coalition was formed by the DA and several smaller parties, and Lauretta Maree of the DA was elected as executive mayor
and Khulile Shubani of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) as deputy-mayor. In February of 2008 councillor Myra Linders left the DA and stood as an independent candidate in the resulting by-election, and won. Her shift in allegiance allowed an ANC-led coalition, with the swing votes of the two councillors from the Kayamandi Community Alliance (KCA) to take control of the council in April 2008. Patrick Swartz of the KCA was elected mayor while Cameron Mcako of the ANC decame deputy mayor. After serious allegations of fraud by councillors surfaced, Myra Linders once again used her swing vote to topple the administration in December 2009 by supporting a DA-led motion of no-confidence in the mayor, deputy mayor and speaker Gordon Pheiffer of the ANC. Cyril Jooste of the DA became the new mayor, and Mcako and Pheiffer both resigned.
In the 2011 local government elections voters handed the DA an outright majority on the in the municipality, resulting in the first stable municipal council in more than a decade. Conrad Sidego of the DA has been appointed the new mayor.
of 2001, there are 117,705 people and 28,745 households residing in the municipality. The racial makeup of the municipality is Black African
20.55%, Coloured
57.36%, India
n/Asia
n 0.20%, and White
21.88%.
17.7% of all households are made up of individuals. The average household size is 4.09.
In the municipality the population is spread out with 25.4% under the age of 15, 24.4% from 15 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 14.9% from 45 to 64, and 4.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 25 years. For every 100 females there are 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.1 males.
In the municipality 74.1% of residents speak Afrikaans
at home, 6.9% speak English
, 0.0% speak Ndebele
, 17.2% speak Xhosa
, 0.1% speak Zulu
, 0.0% speak Northern Sotho
, 1.0% speak Sotho, 0.0% speak Tswana
, 0.0% speak Swati
, 0.0% speak Venda
, and 0.0% speak Tsonga
. 0.0% of the population speaks a non-official language at home.
Local municipality (South Africa)
In South Africa, a local municipality or Category B municipality is a type of municipality that serves as the third, and most local, tier of local government...
that governs the towns of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Pniel, and the surrounding rural areas, in the Western Cape
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
province of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. It covers an area of 831 square kilometres (320.9 sq mi) and, , had a population of 200,524 people in 36,413 households. It falls within the Cape Winelands District Municipality
Cape Winelands District Municipality
The Cape Winelands District Municipality, formerly the Boland District Municipality, is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2007, it had a population of 712,413...
.
Government
Stellenbosch is divided into twenty-two wards, with a total of forty-three councillorCouncillor
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s.
In the local government elections of 2000, the Democratic Alliance (DA) came to power in Stellenbosch. The administration was short-lived, however, and in October 2002, an African National Congress
African National Congress
The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
(ANC) and New National Party (NNP) coalition took over the council when four councillors defected from the DA and a local community party during a floor-crossing period. Willie Ortell (NNP) was elected mayor and GW Adonis (ANC) was chosen as deputy mayor.
After the next local government elections in 2006, a coalition was formed by the DA and several smaller parties, and Lauretta Maree of the DA was elected as executive mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
and Khulile Shubani of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) as deputy-mayor. In February of 2008 councillor Myra Linders left the DA and stood as an independent candidate in the resulting by-election, and won. Her shift in allegiance allowed an ANC-led coalition, with the swing votes of the two councillors from the Kayamandi Community Alliance (KCA) to take control of the council in April 2008. Patrick Swartz of the KCA was elected mayor while Cameron Mcako of the ANC decame deputy mayor. After serious allegations of fraud by councillors surfaced, Myra Linders once again used her swing vote to topple the administration in December 2009 by supporting a DA-led motion of no-confidence in the mayor, deputy mayor and speaker Gordon Pheiffer of the ANC. Cyril Jooste of the DA became the new mayor, and Mcako and Pheiffer both resigned.
In the 2011 local government elections voters handed the DA an outright majority on the in the municipality, resulting in the first stable municipal council in more than a decade. Conrad Sidego of the DA has been appointed the new mayor.
Mayors
- Conrad Sidego (June 2011 - Present) (DA)
- Cyril Jooste (December 2009 - June 2011) (DA)
- Patrick Swartz (April 2008 - December 2009) (KCA)
- Lauretta Maree (March 2006 - April 2008) (DA)
- Willie Ortell (October 2002 - March 2006) (NNP)
Cities and towns
- Franschhoek
- Jamestown
- KayamandiKayamandiKayamandi is a suburb of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape region of South Africa.Kayamandi is located on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. Kayamandi, ironically a Xhosa term for “pleasurable home”, was founded in the early 1950s as part of the increased segregation during the Apartheid regime...
- KlapmutsKlapmutsKlapmuts is a settlement in Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa....
- KylemoreKylemore, Western CapeKylemore, Western Cape is a settlement in Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa....
- LanguedocLanguedoc, Western CapeLanguedoc is a settlement in Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa....
- Pniel
- Stellenbosch
- Wemmershoek
Adjacent municipalities
- Drakenstein Local MunicipalityDrakenstein Local MunicipalityDrakenstein Municipality is a local municipality located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2007, it had a population of 217,089...
(north) - Breede Valley Local MunicipalityBreede Valley Local MunicipalityBreede Valley Municipality is a local municipality located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2007, it had a population of 134,271. Its municipality code is WC025.- Government :...
(northeast) - Theewaterskloof Local MunicipalityTheewaterskloof Local MunicipalityTheewaterskloof Municipality is a local municipality located within the Overberg District Municipality, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2007, the population was 86,719. Its municipality code is WC031...
, Overberg District MunicipalityOverberg District MunicipalityThe Overberg District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC3.- Adjacent municipalities :*Cape Winelands District Municipality *Eden District Municipality...
(southeast) - City of Cape TownCity of Cape TownThe City of Cape Town is the metropolitan municipality which governs the city of Cape Town, South Africa and its suburbs and exurbs. As of 2007, it had a population of 3,497,097....
(west, southwest)
Demographics
As of the censusCensus
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of 2001, there are 117,705 people and 28,745 households residing in the municipality. The racial makeup of the municipality is Black African
Black people
The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...
20.55%, Coloured
Coloured
In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured refers to an heterogenous ethnic group who possess ancestry from Europe, various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, West Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaya, India, Mozambique,...
57.36%, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n/Asia
Asia
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n 0.20%, and White
White people
White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin...
21.88%.
17.7% of all households are made up of individuals. The average household size is 4.09.
In the municipality the population is spread out with 25.4% under the age of 15, 24.4% from 15 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 14.9% from 45 to 64, and 4.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 25 years. For every 100 females there are 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.1 males.
In the municipality 74.1% of residents speak Afrikaans
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...
at home, 6.9% speak English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, 0.0% speak Ndebele
Southern Ndebele language
The Southern Ndebele language is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the amaNdebele . There are two dialects of Southern Ndebele in South Africa:* the Northern Transvaal Ndebele or Nrebele...
, 17.2% speak Xhosa
Xhosa language
Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is spoken by approximately 7.9 million people, or about 18% of the South African population. Like most Bantu languages, Xhosa is a tonal language, that is, the same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meanings when said...
, 0.1% speak Zulu
Zulu language
Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa as well as being understood by over 50% of the population...
, 0.0% speak Northern Sotho
Northern Sotho language
Northern Sotho , also inaccurately known by the name of a major dialect, Pedi or sePedi, is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is spoken by 4,208,980 people — in the South African provinces of Gauteng,...
, 1.0% speak Sotho, 0.0% speak Tswana
Tswana language
Tswana or Setswana is a language spoken in Southern Africa by about 4.5 million people. It is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S , and is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi...
, 0.0% speak Swati
Swati language
The Swazi or Swati language is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Swaziland and South Africa by the Swazi people. The number of speakers is estimated to be in the region of 3 million. The language is taught in Swaziland and some South African schools in Mpumalanga and KaNgwane areas...
, 0.0% speak Venda
Venda language
Venda, also known as or , is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. The majority of Venda speakers live in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province, but about 10% of speakers live in Zimbabwe. The Venda language is related to Kalanga which is spoken in Botswana...
, and 0.0% speak Tsonga
Tsonga language
The Tsonga or Xitsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people, also known as the Shangaan.- Classification :Tsonga belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger–Congo languages...
. 0.0% of the population speaks a non-official language at home.