Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 38,854 km² Black african population 12.7% Native english speakers 2.6% | Municipal code DC5 White population 10.1% Native afrikaans speakers 87.2% | |
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Local municipalities ListLaingsburgPrince AlbertBeaufort West Points of interest Anysberg Nature Reserve, Fransie Pienaar Museum, Steenbokkie Private Nature R, Seweweekspoortpiek, The Marie Rawdon Museum | ||
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.
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Map of Central Karoo DC, South Africa
Geography
The Central Karoo District Municipality is divided into three local municipalities, which are described in the following table.
Adjacent municipalities
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, 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 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.