The West Coast District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC1. Moorreesburg is the seat of the district. As of 2011,it had a total population of 391,766.
Drakenstein Municipality is a local municipality located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality,in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2011,it had a population of 251,262. Its municipality code is WC023.
Bergrivier Municipality is a local municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It governs the towns of Piketberg,Velddrif and Porterville,as well as the surrounding villages and rural areas. As of 2011,it had a population of 61,897. It is located within the West Coast District Municipality and its municipality code is WC013.
Swartland Municipality is a local municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Malmesbury is the seat of the municipality. As of 2022,it had a population of 148,331. Its municipality code is WC015.
The City of Cape Town is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of Cape Town and surrounding areas. As of 2022 it has a population of 4,772,846.
Municipal elections were held in South Africa on 1 March 2006,to elect members to the local governing councils in the municipalities of South Africa. The municipalities form the local government of South Africa and are subdivisions of the provinces,thus making them responsible for local service delivery,such as electricity,water and fire services.
The Western Cape province of South Africa is governed in a parliamentary system in which the people elect the Provincial Parliament,and the parliament elects the Premier as head of the executive. The Premier leads a cabinet of provincial ministers overseeing various executive departments. The provincial government is subject to the Constitution of the Western Cape and the Constitution of South Africa,which together form the supreme law of the province.
Mudene "Dene" Smuts was a South African politician. She was a member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance,serving in various capacities,including as Shadow Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development.
Kevin John Mileham is a South African politician,a Member of the South African Parliament for the Democratic Alliance and the Shadow Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy. Mileham was first elected to Parliament on 3 June 2013,replacing Athol Trollip. His first parliamentary role was as the Shadow Deputy Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development. After the 2014 National Elections,he was appointed the Shadow Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. In February 2019,he was appointed as Shadow Minister of Energy. After the National and Provincial Elections on 8 May 2019,Mileham was appointed as Shadow Minister of the expanded portfolio of Mineral Resources and Energy. Mileham was re-elected to Parliament in 2024.
Christian "Chris" Hattingh is a South African politician. A member of the Democratic Alliance (DA),a part of South Africa's Government of National Unity,he has served at various times in the local,provincial and national tiers of his country's government.
Anton Wilhelm Bredell is a South African politician for the Democratic Alliance. He is the current Western Cape Provincial Minister of Local Government,Environmental Affairs and Development Planning and a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
Mireille Mary Wenger is a South African politician who has served as the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Health and Wellness since 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance (DA),she has been a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since May 2014. She previously served as the DA's Chief Whip from 2019 to 2022 and Provincial Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities from 2022 to 2024.
Samantha Jane Graham is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape who was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2019 general election and re-elected in the 2024 general election as a member of the Democratic Alliance. Graham has been the Deputy Minister of Electricity since 2024. Graham served as the shadow deputy minister of public works and infrastructure from 2019 to 2020 and as the shadow minister for the portfolio between 2020 and 2023,when she was named shadow minister of electricity. She is a former councillor of the Dr Beyers NaudéLocal Municipality.
Leonard Jones Basson is a South African politician from the North West Province. He has represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the National Assembly of South Africa since May 2014 and has been the party's provincial leader in the North West since November 2020. In July 2024 he was elected as the chairperson of the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation.
Mimmy Martha Gondwe is a South African politician serving as the Deputy Minister of Higher Education since 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance,Gondwe was Shadow Deputy Minister of State Security from 2019 to 2020,the Shadow Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration between 2020 and 2023,and the Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises from 2023 until 2024. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) in the National Assembly since May 2019.
Jan Naudéde Villiers is a South African politician who has served in the National Assembly of South Africa for the Democratic Alliance since 2019. He was elected to chair the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration in July 2024. Within the DA's Shadow Cabinet,he held the posts of Shadow Minister on the Auditor-General and as Shadow Minister of Small Business Development.
Mandlenkosi Sicelo Mabika is a South African politician who was first elected to the National Assembly in 2014 as a member of the National Freedom Party. He joined the Democratic Alliance in March 2019 and was re-elected to the National Assembly at that year's election in May.
Thamsanqa (Thami) Bhekokwakhe Mabhena is a South African politician. He is currently a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Democratic Alliance (DA). Mabhena served as the Shadow Deputy Minister of Transport between 2019 and 2024.
Isaac Mbulelo Sileku is a South African politician who has been the Western Cape's Provincial Minister of Mobility since 2024. A member of the Democratic Alliance,he has been a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since 2022. Sileku previously served as the Deputy Executive Mayor of the Theewaterskloof Local Municipality from 2016 until 2019 and as a Permanent Delegate to the National Council of Provinces from the Western Cape from 2019 to 2022.
Nicholas Georg Myburgh is a South African farmer,lawyer and politician for the Democratic Alliance. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2021. Myburgh had previously served as the Executive Mayor of the Swellendam Local Municipality from 2011 to 2021.
