Garden Route District Municipality
The Garden Route District Municipality (Afrikaans: Tuinroete-distriksmunisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala weSithili sase Garden Route), formerly known as the Eden District Municipality,[3] is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC4.
Garden Route
Eden | |
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![]() Location in South Africa | |
![]() Local municipalities within the Garden Route District | |
Coordinates: 33°45′S 22°00′E / 33.750°S 22.000°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Western Cape |
Seat | George |
Local municipalities | |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal council |
• Mayor | Memory Booysen (DA) (2016-) |
Area | |
• Total | 23,331 km2 (9,008 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 574,265 |
• Density | 25/km2 (64/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 24.7% |
• Coloured | 54.2% |
• Indian/Asian | 0.4% |
• White | 19.2% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Afrikaans | 70.8% |
• Xhosa | 18.3% |
• English | 7.5% |
• Other | 3.4% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Municipal code | DC4 |
Geography
editThe Garden Route District Municipality covers an area of 23,331 square kilometres (9,008 sq mi) in the southeastern part of the Western Cape, covering the regions known as the Garden Route and the Little Karoo. It stretches to the Breede River mouth and the Langeberg mountains on the west, where it abuts the Overberg District Municipality and (for a short distance) the Cape Winelands District Municipality. To the north the boundary with the Central Karoo District Municipality runs along the Swartberg mountains. In the east the municipality runs up to the Eastern Cape provincial boundary.
The district is divided into seven local municipalities, described in the following table.
Name | Seat | Population (2011) |
Area (km2) |
Density (inhabitants/km2) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kannaland[4] | Ladismith | 24,767 | 4,758 | 5.2 |
Hessequa[5] | Riversdale | 52,642 | 5,733 | 9.2 |
Mossel Bay[6] | Mossel Bay | 89,430 | 2,011 | 44.5 |
George[7] | George | 193,672 | 5,191 | 37.3 |
Oudtshoorn[8] | Oudtshoorn | 95,933 | 3,537 | 27.1 |
Bitou[9] | Plettenberg Bay | 49,162 | 992 | 49.6 |
Knysna[10] | Knysna | 68,659 | 1,109 | 61.9 |
Total | 574,265 | 23,331 | 24.6 |
Demographics
editThe following statistics are from the 2011 Census.[11] Note that due to fuzzing applied to statistics, columns may not sum to exactly the indicated total.
First languageedit
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Politics
editThe council of the Garden Route District Municipality consists of thirty-five councillors. Fourteen councillors are directly elected by party-list proportional representation, and twenty-one are appointed by the councils of the local municipalities in the district: six by George, four by Mossel Bay, three each by Oudtshoorn and Knysna, two each by Hessequa and Bitou, and one by Kannaland.
After the election of 3 August 2016 there are twenty-one councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA), twelve from the African National Congress (ANC), and one each from the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA) and the African Independent Congress (AIC).[12]
The following table shows the detailed composition of the council.[12]
Party | Directly elected |
Appointed by local councils | Total | |||||||
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Kannaland | Hessequa | Mossel Bay | George | Oudtshoorn | Bitou | Knysna | ||||
DA | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 21 | |
ANC | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||
Independent Civic Organisation | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
AIC | 1 | 1 |
The following table shows the results of the election of the fourteen directly elected councillors.[13][14]
Party | Votes | Vote % | Seats | |
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DA | 106,242 | 53.2% | 8 | |
ANC | 61,755 | 30.9% | 5 | |
Independent Civic Organisation | 10,791 | 5.4% | 1 | |
VF+ | 3,965 | 2.0% | 0 | |
EFF | 3,604 | 1.8% | 0 | |
AIC | 3,380 | 1.7% | 0 | |
Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners | 2,592 | 1.3% | 0 | |
ACDP | 2,439 | 1.2% | 0 | |
COPE | 1,804 | 0.9% | 0 | |
South African Religious Civic Organisation | 1,018 | 0.5% | 0 | |
South Africa Civics | 858 | 0.4% | 0 | |
Knysna Unity Congress | 525 | 0.3% | 0 | |
Democratic New Civic Organisation | 378 | 0.2% | 0 | |
Christian Democrats | 314 | 0.2% | 0 | |
George Independent Ratepayers Forum | 163 | 0.1% | 0 | |
Total | 199,828 | 14 | ||
Valid votes | 199,828 | 98.1% | ||
Spoilt votes | 3,819 | 1.9% | ||
Total votes cast | 203,647 | |||
Registered voters | 326,165 | |||
Turnout percentage | 62.4% |
References
edit- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ "Eden District Municipality name to change to Garden Route District Municipality" (Press release). George: Garden Route District Municipality. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ^ "Kannaland Local Municipality". The Local Government Handbook. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "Hessequa Local Municipality". The Local Government Handbook. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "Mossel Bay Local Municipality". The Local Government Handbook. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "George Local Municipality". The Local Government Handbook. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "Oudtshoorn Local Municipality". The Local Government Handbook. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "Bitou Local Municipality". The Local Government Handbook. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "Knysna Local Municipality". The Local Government Handbook. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ Census 2011 statistical tables accessible through Stats SA SuperWEB Archived September 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b "Political composition of councils February 2017" (PDF). Western Cape Department of Local Government. February 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ "Detailed DC 40% Ballot Results Report: DC4 - Eden" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: DC4 - Eden" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Retrieved 4 June 2017.