Laingsburg Local Municipality

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Laingsburg
Local municipality
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Municipal codeWC051

Laingsburg Municipality (

Afrikaans: Laingsburg Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2011, the population is 8,289.[2]
Its municipality code is WC051.

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 8,784 square kilometres (3,392 sq mi) on the south-western edge of the

Karoo Hoogland Municipality
to the north.

According to the

Black African". The first language of 94.3% of the population is Afrikaans, while 1.7% speak English and 1.2% speak Xhosa.[3]

The principal settlement in the municipality is the town of

Laingsburg, which as of 2011 has a population of 5,667. West of Laingsburg is the village of Matjiesfontein
, population 422.

History

At the end of the

coloured
residents were governed by a management committee subordinate to the white 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 municipality and the management committee were dissolved, and the Laingsburg Transitional Local Council (TLC) was established to replace them in December 1994.

The TLC was initially made up of members nominated by the various parties to the negotiations, until May 1996 when elections were held. At the time of these elections the Central Karoo District Council was established in place of the Central Karoo RSC, and transitional representative councils (TRCs) were elected to represent rural areas outside the TLCs on the District Council. The area that was to become Laingsburg Local Municipality was covered by the Laingsburg TRC.

At the

local elections of December 2000 the TLC and TRC were both dissolved and the Laingsburg Local Municipality was established as a single local authority. At the same election the Central Karoo District Council was dissolved and replaced by the Central Karoo District Municipality
.

Politics

Main article: Laingsburg Local Municipality elections
This article is part of a series on the
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The Hon Alan Winde MMP

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Masizole Mnqasela MMP
Deputy Speaker
Beverley Schäfer MMP

Chief Whip of the Majority Party
Mireille Wenger MMP
Leader of the Opposition
Cameron Dugmore MMP
Chief Whip of the Official Opposition
Pat Lekker MMP

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Elections
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The municipal council consists of seven members elected by

Patriotic Alliance to govern the municipality with the PA's Mitchell John Smith voted in as mayor.[4]

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.[5]

Laingsburg local election, 1 November 2021
Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
African National Congress 861 833 1,694 26.3% 1 1 2
Karoo Democratic Force 749 827 1,576 24.4% 0 1 1
Democratic Alliance 781 749 1,530 23.7% 3 0 3
Patriotic Alliance
 433 462 895 13.9% 0 1 1
4 other parties 381 377 758 11.7% 0 0 0
Total 3,205 3,248 6,453 4 3 7
Valid votes 3,205 3,248 6,453 99.1%
Spoilt votes 26 35 61 0.9%
Total votes cast 3,231 3,283 6,514
Voter turnout 3,286
Registered voters 4,770
Turnout percentage 68.9%

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. ^ "Laingsburg Local Municipality". Census 2011.
  4. ^ "Patriotic Alliance claims first ever mayoral victory in Laingsburg Municipality". iol.co.za. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 – Laingsburg". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

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