Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality
Introduction '''Karoo Hoogland Municipality''' () is a local municipality within the Namakwa District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The municipality incorporates the towns of Williston, Fraserburg and Sutherland. Although the towns are separated by more than 100 km by road, they share many administrative tasks. ''Hoogland'' is an Afrikaans word meaning "highland" and ''Karoo'' is a Khoekhoe word meaning "hard" or "dry". The name reflects the area which has dry, arid and desert-like conditions.In 2011, Karoo Hoogland elected the first mayor from the Congress of the People (COPE) party, Jan Julies, and a COPE-DA coalition took control of the council after the election of 18 May 2011.This lasted until the 2016 elections.
Main places The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places: Place  Code  Area (km2) Population Fraserburg   367003  98.9  3,029 Sutherland   367004  36.0  2,836 Williston   367001  77.9  3,368 ''Remainder''   367002  32,061.1  3,356 '''Total'''  '''32,273.9'''  '''12,588'''
Politics The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in six wards, while the remaining five 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 1 November 2021 no party obtained a majority of seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Karoo Hoogland local election, 1 November 2021 Party  Votes  Seats Ward  List  Total  %  Ward  List  Total  1,815  1,803  3,618  40.8%  3  2  5  1,337  1,335  2,672  30.2%  3  0  3  962  994  1,956  22.1%  0  2  2  229  225  454  5.1%  0  1  1  42  60  102  1.2%  0  0  0  29  29  58  0.7%  0  0  0 '''Total''' '''4,414'''  '''4,446'''  '''8,860'''    '''6'''  '''5'''  '''11''' Valid votes 4,414  4,446  8,860  98.7% Spoilt votes 64  57  121  1.3% '''Total votes cast''' '''4,478'''  '''4,503'''  '''8,981'''  Voter turnout 4,507 Registered voters 7,250 Turnout percentage 62.2%On 8 December 2022 the PA/ANC coalition collapsed during a no confidence motion brought by the DA. Consequently the PA mayor Anthony Mietas was replaced by the DA’s Johan van der Colff.
References
External links *  Official website