Paarl is a town with 285,574 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the largest town in the Cape Winelands. Due to the growth of the Mbekweni township,it is now a de facto urban unit with Wellington. It is situated about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province and is known for its scenic environment and viticulture and fruit-growing heritage.
Stellenbosch is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa,situated about 50 kilometres east of Cape Town,along the banks of the Eerste River at the foot of the Stellenbosch Mountain. The town became known as the City of Oaks or Eikestad in Afrikaans and Dutch due to the large number of oak trees that were planted by its founder,Simon van der Stel,to grace the streets and homesteads.
Petrus Jacobus "Peter" Marais is a retired South African politician who served as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
Stellenbosch Municipality is the local municipality that governs the towns of Stellenbosch,Franschhoek and Pniel,and the surrounding rural areas,in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It covers an area of 831 square kilometres (321 sq mi),and as of 2011 had a population of 155,733 people in 43,420 households. It falls within the Cape Winelands District Municipality.
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.
The Cape Winelands District Municipality,formerly the Boland District Municipality,is a district municipality located in the Boland region of the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2011,it had a population of 787,490. The largest towns in the municipality are Paarl,Worcester,Stellenbosch and Wellington.
The City of Cape Town is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of Cape Town and surrounding areas. As of the 2016 community survey,it had a population of 4,005,016.
Daniel Plato,known as Dan Plato,is a South African politician and a former Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. He served from June 2011 until October 2018 and again from January 2022 until February 2024. He is the former mayor of Cape Town,a position he held for two nonconsecutive terms from May 2009 until June 2011 and again from November 2018 until October 2021. From June 2011 to October 2018,he was the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Community Safety.
Chris Hunsinger is a South African politician,a Member of the South African Parliament since 2014,Caucus Whip and Treasurer with the Democratic Alliance. He was appointed by the then Leader of the Opposition Mmusi Maimane on 5 June 2019 and retained by the current Leader of the Opposition John Steenhuisen in October 2019 and again in December 2020,as The Shadow Minister of Transport. Hunsinger was re-elected to Parliament on 6 June 2019. He speaks and writes about issues related to consumer and commodity needs in transport,including safety,planning,finance and management with South African road,rail,maritime,and aviation service providers.
Derrick America is a South African politician who is currently serving as a member of the mayoral committee of the Drakenstein Local Municipality. America previously served as a City of Cape Town councillor,a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa and a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
The Drakenstein Municipal Council is the elected unicameral legislature of the Drakenstein Local Municipality in Paarl,Western Cape,South Africa.
Good is a South African political party that was formed in December 2018. It is led by its founder Patricia de Lille,current Minister of Tourism and former mayor of Cape Town. The party's stronghold is the Western Cape and mainly draws support from the Coloured community.
Thomas Charles Ravenscroft Walters is a South African politician of the Democratic Alliance (DA) who has been serving as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since May 2024. Previously,he served as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 2009 to 2014 and then as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa from 2014 until 2024. In 2012,Walters was elected Deputy Federal Council Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance,and has been deputising Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille since 2019. He deputised James Selfe from 2012 to 2019. Walters was the party's Shadow Minister and Shadow Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform.
The 2021 South African municipal elections were held on 1 November 2021,to elect councils for all district,metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. It is the sixth municipal election held in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994,held every five years. The previous municipal elections were held in 2016. On 21 April 2021,President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the elections will be held on Wednesday,27 October 2021. It had been recommend by Dikgang Moseneke to delay the municipal elections until 2022. The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) requested the Constitutional Court to support the date postponement. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supported the date postponement while the Democratic Alliance (DA) was against the postponement of the date. The Constitutional Court dismissed the application to postpone the date until 2022,ruling that they had to take place between 27 October and 1 November. On 9 September 2021,the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs,Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced that the elections would be held on 1 November.
Wendy Felecia Philander is a South African politician serving as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament since August 2018. She is the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Health. She was previously a Member of the Mayoral Committee of the Drakenstein Local Municipality. Philander is a member of the Democratic Alliance.
Benedicta Maria van Minnen is a South African politician and a member of the Democratic Alliance. She has been a [[member of the Western Cape Provincial. Previously,she served as a councillor in the City of Cape Town and as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa.
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.
Gesina Maria Magdalena "Gesie" van Deventer is a South African politician,farmer and advocate who has served as the Executive Mayor of the Stellenbosch Local Municipality since 2016. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she previously served as the Executive Mayor of the neighbouring Drakenstein Local Municipality from 2011 to 2016.
Gerrit Pretorius is a South African politician and former diplomat who was a Democratic Alliance Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from December 2022 until May 2024. He was a municipal councillor of the George Local Municipality from 2016 to 2021,serving as the deputy mayor of the municipality from 2016 until 2018 and as council speaker from 2018 until he left council.
