Central Karoo District Municipality
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Central Karoo Sentraal Karoo |
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.svg) Location in South Africa |
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.svg) Local municipalities within the Central Karoo |
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| Coordinates: 32°40′S 22°15′E / 32.667°S 22.250°ECoordinates: 32°40′S 22°15′E / 32.667°S 22.250°E | ||
| Country | South Africa | |
| Province | Western Cape | |
| Seat | Beaufort West | |
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| Government | ||
| • Type | Municipal council | |
| • Mayor | Doreen Hugo | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 38,854 km2 (15,002 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 71,011 | |
| • Density | 1.8/km2 (4.7/sq mi) | |
| Racial makeup (2011) | ||
| • Black African | 12.7% | |
| • Coloured | 76.2% | |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.4% | |
| • White | 10.1% | |
| First languages (2011) | ||
| • Afrikaans | 87.2% | |
| • Xhosa | 7.8% | |
| • English | 2.6% | |
| • Other | 2.4% | |
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) | |
| Municipal code | DC5 | |
The Central Karoo District Municipality (Afrikaans: Sentraal Karoo-distriksmunisipaliteit) is a district municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC5.
The Central Karoo District Municipality is divided into three local municipalities, which are described in the following table.
The following statistics are from the 2011 Census. Note that due to fuzzing applied to statistics, columns may not sum to exactly the indicated total.
The council of the Central Karoo District Municipality consists of thirteen councillors, of whom six are directly elected by party-list proportional representation, and seven are appointed by the councils of the constituent local municipalities: five by Beaufort West and one each by Laingsburg and Prince Albert. As of August 2012[update] there are six councillors representing the African National Congress (ANC), six representing the Democratic Alliance (DA), and one representing the Karoo Gemeenskaps Party (KGP). The KGP councillor is in a coalition with the ANC. The mayor is Edward Njadu and the deputy mayor is Elsabe Maans; both are ANC representatives.
The following table shows the detailed composition of the council.
The following table shows the results of the election of the ten directly-elected councillors on 18 May 2011.
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