Kannaland Local Municipality

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Kannaland
Local municipality
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Municipal codeWC041

Kannaland Municipality (

Zoar. As of 2011, it has a population of 24,767.[2]
Its municipality code is WC041.

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 4,758 square kilometres (1,837 sq mi) in the

Langeberg
Municipalities to the west.

According to the

Black African". The first language of 95.4% of the population is Afrikaans, while 2.5% speak English.[3]

The largest town and location of the municipal headquarters is

Van Wyksdorp
(pop. 833) is further south in the valley of the Groot River.

History

Formation of the municipality

At the end of the

coloured
residents of Nissenville (Ladismith) and Calitzdorp were governed by management committees subordinate to the white councils. The mission settlement of Zoar was governed by a board of management.

While the negotiations to end apartheid were taking place a process was established for local authorities to agree on voluntary mergers. In November 1993, the Municipality of Calitzdorp and the Calitzdorp Management Committee merged into a single municipal council.

After the

national elections of 1994
a process of local government transformation began, in which negotiations were held between the existing local authorities, political parties, and local community organisations. As a result of these negotiations, the existing local authorities were dissolved and transitional local councils (TLCs) were created for each town and village. In December 1994 Ladismith TLC replaced the Municipality of Ladismith and the Nissenville Management Committee. In January 1995 Calitzdorp TLC replaced the Municipality of Calitzdorp, and Zoar TLC replaced the Zoar Management Board. In October 1995 Vanwyksdorp Municipality was also converted into a TLC.

The transitional councils were initially made up of members nominated by the various parties to the negotiations, until May 1996 when elections were held. At these elections the Regional Services Councils were replaced by District Councils (DCs), and transitional representative councils (TRCs) were elected to represent rural areas outside the TLCs on the DCs. The area that is today Kannaland included the Ladismith and Calitzdorp TRCs under the Klein Karoo DC as well as part of the Langeberg TRC under the South Cape DC.

At the

Eden District Municipality
.

Political history since 2000

The

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) councillor.[5]
A short-lived coalition led by the DA took power after the December 2000 local government elections, but it collapsed when the single PAC councillor withdrew his support, and the ANC took control of the council in March 2001.

The

Western Cape High Court
. The former mayor refused to step down pending the outcome of the case.

In 2011 the auditor-general declared that he could not give a clear statement about the financial situation in the municipality because the records are missing and no one seemed to know where they were.[7] After almost a decade of financial problems an attempt to restore order was underway in 2011 [8]

In the

election of 18 May 2011 the council was reduced in size to seven seats. No party obtained a majority; ICOSA won three seats while the ANC and the DA won two each.[9] ICOSA and the ANC formed a coalition to govern the municipality.[10]

The

election of 3 August 2016 left the party composition of the council unchanged.[11] The DA and ANC councillors formed a coalition to govern without ICOSA,[12] but DA national leadership said that the coalition had not been authorized.[13] In March 2017 the ANC recalled its councillors to put an end to the coalition.[14] However the mayor has not been recalled despite the national ANC structures stating that this would happen. A motion of no confidence in the mayor and speaker of the municipality was put forward in August 2017. The motion failed with the DA and ANC in the municipality against the motion, leaving the ANC mayor Magdalene Barry in power.[15] The Democratic Alliance spokesperson on local government stated that the party would side with the ANC in order to keep the Independent Civic Organisation away from the public purse. This follows forensic evidence detailing financial misconduct that amounted to more than R14 million under Jeffrey Donson's tenure.[16]

Politics

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The municipal council consists of seven members elected by

party lists
so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

Election results

Main article: Kannaland Local Municipality elections

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.[17]

Kannaland local election, 1 November 2021
Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa 4,063 4,046 8,109 45.2% 3 0 3
African National Congress 1,952 1,908 3,860 21.5% 0 2 2
Democratic Alliance 1,838 1,844 3,682 20.5% 1 0 1
Kannaland Independent Party 657 686 1,343 7.5% 0 1 1
6 other parties 486 460 946 5.3% 0 0 0
Total 8,996 8,944 17,940 4 3 7
Valid votes 8,996 8,944 17,940 99.0%
Spoilt votes 97 91 188 1.0%
Total votes cast 9,093 9,035 18,128
Voter turnout 9,107
Registered voters 14,937
Turnout percentage 61.0%

References

  1. ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Kannaland Local Municipality". Census 2011.
  4. ^ Sum of the Main Places Ladismith and Nissenville from Census 2011.
  5. ^ https://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/2/Seat%20Calculation%20Detail/WP/WC041.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ https://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/95/Seat%20Calculation%20Detail/WP/WC041.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ Die Burger June 8 2011 (in Afrikaans)
  8. ^ Die Bruger June 8 2011 (in Afrikaans)
  9. ^ https://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/197/Seat%20Calculation%20Detail/WP/WC041.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. ^ "Political composition of councils" (PDF). Western Cape Department of Local Government. August 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  11. ^ https://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/402/Seat%20Calculation%20Detail/WP/WC041.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  12. ^ Le Roux, Ilze-Marie (17 August 2016). "DA, ANC vote out Icosa in Kannaland municipality". EWN. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  13. ^ du Plessis, Carien (18 August 2016). "DA to discipline Kannaland councillors". News24. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  14. ^ de Villiers, James (9 March 2017). "ANC recalls Kannaland mayor to end coalition with DA". News24. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  15. ^ Dentlinger, Lindsay (10 August 2017). "No Confidence Motion to Remove Kannaland speaker, mayor fails". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  16. ^ Dentlinger, Lindsay (11 August 2017). "DA ANC Councillors to Stand Together in Kannaland". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  17. ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Kannaland". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-08.

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