The Central Karoo District Municipality (

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: Sentraal Karoo-distriksmunisipaliteit) is a

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municipality located in the

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. Its municipality code is DC5.

Geography

The Central Karoo District Municipality is divided into three local municipalities, which are described in the following table.

Adjacent municipalities

Pixley ka Seme District Municipality Pixley ka Seme is one of the five districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Pixley ka Seme is De Aar. The majority (77%) of its 186,351 people speak Afrikaans as first language (2011 Census). The district code is DC ...

, Northern Cape (northeast) *

Sarah Baartman District Municipality Sarah Baartman District Municipality (formerly Cacadu District Municipality) is situated in the western part of the Eastern Cape province, covering an area of 58 242 square kilometres. The area of the district municipality includes seven local m ...

, Eastern Cape (east) *

Garden Route District Municipality The Garden Route District Municipality ( af, Tuinroete-distriksmunisipaliteit or ''Garden Route Distriksmunisipaliteit''; xh, uMasipala weSithili sase Garden Route; formerly known as the Eden District Municipality) is a district municipality loca ...

(south) *

Cape Winelands District Municipality 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 to ...

(southwest) *

Namakwa District Municipality Namakwa is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Namakwa is Springbok and the region is also known as Little Namaqualand. The majority of its 108,118 people speak Afrikaans (2001 Census). The distric ...

, Northern Cape (northwest)

Demographics

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.

Politics

The council of the Central Karoo District Municipality consists of thirteen councillors. Six councillors are directly elected by

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, and seven are appointed by the councils of the local municipalities in the district: five by

Beaufort West Beaufort West (Afrikaans: ''Beaufort-Wes''; Xhosa: ''eBhofolo'') is a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is the largest town in the arid Great Karoo region, and is known as the "Capital of the Karoo". It forms part of the Beau ...

and one each by Laingsburg and Prince Albert. there are six councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA), four from the

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(ANC), two from the Karoo Gemeenskap Party (KGP) and one from the Karoo Democratic Force (KDF). The DA, KGP and KDF are in a coalition which governs the council. The following table shows the detailed composition of the council. The following table shows the results of the election of the six directly elected councillors.

References

External links

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Western Cape Government site

Tourism site
{{Municipalities of the Western Cape District municipalities of the Western Cape Central Karoo District Municipality Karoo