Witzenberg Local Municipality

Witzenberg
Local municipality
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Municipal code	WC022

Witzenberg Municipality (

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 10,753 square kilometres (4,152 sq mi) which includes the

Cederberg Municipality

to the northwest.

According to the

The principal town and location of the municipal head office is

History

At the end of the

. The remaining rural areas were served by the Breërivier Regional Services Council.

While the negotiations to end apartheid were taking place a process was established for local authorities to agree on voluntary mergers. The Tulbagh municipality and management committee took part in this process, merging to form a new non-racial municipality in October 1993.

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.

• Tulbagh TLC replaced the merged Tulbagh Municipality as well as the Gouda Municipality (which lies outside of the area that is now Witzenberg) in October 1994.
• Wolseley TLC replaced Wolseley Municipality and Wolseley Management Committee in November 1994.
• Ceres TLC replaced Ceres Municipality, Ceres Management Committee and Nduli Town Council in December 1994.
• Prince Alfred Hamlet TLC replaced Prince Alfred Hamlet Municipality in January 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 these elections the Breërivier District Council was established, replacing the Breërivier Regional Services Council. Transitional representative councils (TRCs) were also elected to represent rural areas outside the TLCs on the District Council; the area that was to become Witzenberg Municipality included most of the Witzenberg TRC and a small part of the Matroosberg TRC.

At the

. This area was incorporated into Witzenberg Municipality when District Management Areas were abolished in 2011.

Politics

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The municipal council consists of twenty-three members elected by

The following are the results of the election (after a recount in December 2021 allocated a seat previously awarded to GOOD to the DA):[14]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Independent candidates	32	0.16	0				0
	8 other parties	1,426	7.11	0	1,322	6.64	0	0
Total		20,065	100.00	12	19,924	100.00	11	23
Valid votes		20,065	98.79		19,924	98.53
Invalid/blank votes		245	1.21		298	1.47
Total votes		20,310	100.00		20,222	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		47,098	43.12		47,098	42.94

Municipal audits

In June 2022, the municipality received an unqualified clean audit for the 2020-21 financial year, one of 41 of the country's 257 municipalities to do so. It has received a clean audit each year since 2016–17.^[15][16]

Partners

Since 2002 Witzenberg has an official town twinning agreement with the town Essen in Belgium. The city-to-city cooperation consists of sustainable development programs in the vulnerable areas concerning youth, local economic development and environment.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Official website
• Witzenberg Local Municipality on the Government Communication and Information Systems website