Country South Africa Seat Kimberley Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 3,145 km² Black african population 61.2% University Sol Plaatje University | Province Northern Cape Wards 31 Municipal code NC091 White population 7.5% Native afrikaans speakers 45.2% | |
District Frances Baard District Municipality Points of interest Big Hole, Mokala National Park, William Humphreys Art Gallery, McGregor Museum, Kamfers Dam | ||
The Sol Plaatje Local Municipality is a local municipality in the Frances Baard District Municipality district of the Northern Cape province, South Africa, named after Sol T. Plaatje. It includes the diamond mining city of Kimberley.
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Map of Kimberley, South Africa
Main places
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-three wards, while the remaining thirty-two 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-eight seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.