Mossel Bay Local Municipality

Mossel Bay Mosselbaai
Local municipality
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Municipal code	WC043

Mossel Bay Municipality (

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 2,011 square kilometres (776 sq mi) on the coastal plain between the

George Municipality

to the east.

According to the

The principal town is

(pop. 1,235) are situated in the interior of the municipality closer to the mountains.

History

At the end of the

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 March 1992, the Municipality of Great Brak River, the Great Brak River Management Committee and the Gleniqua Local Council merged into a single Municipality for the Area of Great Brak River.

After the

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. The smaller seaside resorts were also combined with larger towns.

• Herbertsdale TLC replaced the Municipality of Herbertsdale in December 1994.
• Friemersheim TLC replaced the Friemersheim Management Board in January 1995.
• Mossel Bay TLC replaced the Municipalities of Mossel Bay and Hartenbos, the D'Almeida Management Committee, the Kwanonqaba Town Council, the Boggomsbaai Local Council, and the Klein Brak River, Reebok and Tergniet Local Council in February 1995.
• Great Brak River TLC replaced the Municipality for the Area of Great Brak River in February 1995.

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 the time of these elections the South Cape District Council was established in place of the South Cape 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 Mossel Bay Municipality included the Mossel Bay TRC and a small part of the Outeniqua TRC.

At the

.

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The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by

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

Marie Ferreira of the Democratic Alliance (DA) became executive mayor after the March 2006 local government elections when the DA formed a coalition with Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA) since no single party had obtained an outright majority. The DA held 10 seats in the (then) 23-seat council followed by 8 for the African National Congress (ANC) and 3 for ICOSA. Following the September 2007, floor-crossing window the DA gained an outright majority when 3 councillors defected to the DA resulting in the DA holding 13 seats out of 23 while the ANC lost a seat to the DA and currently has 7. ICOSA lost its representation in the council when 2 councillors defected to the DA and its one ward councillor became an independent.

In the

Mossel Bay local election, 1 November 2021
Party		Votes				Seats
		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
	Democratic Alliance	23,372	23,340	46,712	66.2%	10	9	19
	African National Congress	5,333	5,431	10,764	15.3%	5	0	5
	Freedom Front Plus	1,889	1,936	3,825	5.4%	0	2	2
	Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa	1,791	1,774	3,565	5.1%	0	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	915	907	1,822	2.6%	0	1	1
	Patriotic Alliance	702	718	1,420	2.0%	0	1	1
	Independent candidates	141	–	141	0.2%	0	–	0
	8 other parties	1,097	1,176	2,273	3.2%	0	0	0
Total		35,240	35,282	70,522		15	14	29
Valid votes		35,240	35,282	70,522	99.2%
Spoilt votes		263	333	596	0.8%
Total votes cast		35,503	35,615	71,118
Voter turnout		35,693
Registered voters		64,310
Turnout percentage		55.5%

Crime and corruption

In 2007, crime figures revealed that Mossel Bay recorded the lowest crime rates in the country. Between August 2006 and July 2007, there were no murders, hijackings, or business robberies. The low unemployment rate has been cited as a factor for the low crime rates.[6] In 2018 two minicipal workers were arrested after swindling the municipality out of R138,000 by changing the amounts charged for grave sites. Each received a three year jail sentence.^[7]

References

External links

• Official website