Prince Albert Local Municipality

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Prince Albert
Local municipality
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Seal
Map of the Western Cape with Prince Albert highlighted (2011).svg
Location in the Western Cape
Coordinates: 33°00′S22°00′E / 33.000°S 22.000°E / -33.000; 22.000 Coordinates: 33°00′S22°00′E / 33.000°S 22.000°E / -33.000; 22.000
Country South Africa
Province Western Cape
District Central Karoo
Seat Prince Albert
Wards 4
Government
[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • MayorGoliat Lottering
Area
 • Total8,153 km2 (3,148 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total13,136
 • Density1.6/km2 (4.2/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 •  Black African 2.8%
 •  Coloured 84.5%
 •  Indian/Asian 0.3%
 •  White 11.8%
First languages (2011)
[2]
 •  Afrikaans 93.5%
 •  English 3.6%
 • Other2.9%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeWC052

Prince Albert Municipality is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

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History

At the end of the apartheid era, the area that is today the Prince Albert Local Municipality formed part of the Central Karoo Regional Services Council (RSC). The town of Prince Albert was governed by a municipal council elected by the white residents, while the coloured residents were governed by a management committee subordinate to the white council. Bitterwater (Leeu-Gamka) was also governed by a management committee subordinate to the RSC.

After the national elections of 1994 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, in January 1995 the municipality and management committee of Prince Albert were both dissolved and the Prince Albert Transitional Local Council (TLC) was created to replace them. In the same month the Bitterwater management committee was also replaced by the Leeu-Gamka TLC.

The TLCs 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 Central Karoo District Council was established in place of the Central Karoo 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 Prince Albert Local Municipality was covered by the Prince Albert TRC.

At the local elections of December 2000 the TLCs and TRC were all dissolved and the Prince Albert Local Municipality was established as a single local authority. At the same election the Central Karoo District Council was dissolved and replaced by the Central Karoo District Municipality.

Politics

The municipal council consists of seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in four wards, while the remaining three 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 no party obtained a majority of seats.

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election. [3]

Prince Albert local election, 1 November 2021
PartyVotesSeats
WardListTotal %WardListTotal
Democratic Alliance 2,1032,0914,19437.4%213
Karoo Gemeenskap Party 1,2201,2472,46722.0%202
Patriotic Alliance 8058021,60714.3%011
African National Congress 6195951,21410.8%011
8 other parties8398811,72015.4%000
Total5,5865,61611,202437
Valid votes5,5865,61611,20298.5%
Spoilt votes 81891701.5%
Total votes cast5,6675,70511,372
Voter turnout5,714
Registered voters8,073
Turnout percentage70.8%

By-elections

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021.

DateWardParty of the previous councillorParty of the newly elected councillor
14 September 2022 [4] 4 Karoo Gemeenskap Party Democratic Alliance

The by-election took place after the Karoo Gemeenskap Party (KGP), in a coalition with the African National Congress (ANC) and Patriotic Alliance (PA), expelled its ward councillor and mayor Margy Jaftha for supporting the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a motion to replace the speaker and the deputy mayor with DA representatives. Jaftha subsequently stood for the DA against KGP leader Goliat Lottering, winning the seat, and earning the DA an outright majority on the council. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Prince Albert". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  4. ↑ "Municipal By-elections results - Electoral Commission of South Africa". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  5. ↑ Sussman, Wayne (2022-09-15). "SEPTEMBER BY-ELECTIONS: DA triumphs in Prince Albert nail-biter while IFP bucks trend to shock ANC in KZN". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
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