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.
Knysna Municipality is a local municipality within the Garden Route District Municipality,in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2022,its population is 96,055. Its municipal code is WC048.
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 2022 had a population of 175,411 people. It falls within the Cape Winelands District Municipality.
Witzenberg Municipality is a local municipality located within the Cape Winelands District Municipality,in the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2022 it had a population of 103,765.
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.
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.
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.
Conrad James Poole is a South African politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since June 2024,representing the Democratic Alliance.
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.
Sharon Winona Davids is a South African politician and a member of the National Assembly since 2024. A member of the African National Congress (ANC),she has served as the party's deputy provincial chairperson in the Western Cape since June 2023. Prior to her current roles,Davids represented the ANC in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from 2014 to 2019 and previously served as a councillor in the Drakenstein Local Municipality.
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.
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.
The council of the Matzikama Local Municipality in the Western Cape,South Africa is elected every five years by a system of mixed-member proportional representation. Eight councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eight wards,while the remaining seven are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the Democratic Alliance (DA) won a plurality of six seats on the council.
Marguerite van Eeden is a South African actress and photographer. She is best known for her Afrikaans-language film roles in Vaselinetjie and Vergeet My Nie.
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.
Elizabeth Christina "Elza" van Lingen was a South African politician. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she was elected a councillor of the Cacadu District Municipality in 2002. She was elected to the National Council of Provinces in 2009. Van Lingen became leader of the DA caucus in the NCOP in 2011,and was re-elected to the NCOP in 2014. From 2016 until her death,she served as the mayor of the Kouga Local Municipality.
