CITY OF CAPE TOWN

:''This article is about the municipality. For the city itself, see Cape Town.''
The 'City of Cape Town' (Afrikaans: ''Stad Kaapstad''; Xhosa: ''Isixeko saseKapa''; officially the 'City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality'; colloquially the 'Cape Town Unicity'; formerly the 'Cape Metropolitan Administration') is the metropolitan municipality which governs the city of Cape Town, South Africa and its suburbs and exurbs. As of 2001, its population was 2,893,246.^[1]

Contents

Government

Council seat breakdown

Geography

Adjacent municipalities

See also

References

External links

Government

Cape Town is governed by a 210-member city council, which chooses the executive mayor, who in turn chooses a 28-member mayoral committee. The city is divided into 105 electoral wards; each ward directly elects one member of the council. The other 105 councillors are elected by a system of party-list proportional representation. The city manager is the non-political head of the city's administration.

The current mayor is Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance.^[2] In the 2006 local government election, the Democratic Alliance was the largest single party with 90 of the 210 seats on the council, ahead of the African National Congress's 81 seats, but with no party holding a majority.^[3]
The DA has now increased it's majority, by introducing the Independent Democrats (South Africa) to the coalition, and so the DA-led council now has a majority of 22 seats.
Before the unification of Cape Town's local government into the so-called "Unicity", it was divided into six regional "Administrations"; many functions of the Unicity are still divided according to the old Administrations. The administrations were:

★ ''Cape Town'' - the City Bowl, the Atlantic seaboard, the southern suburbs, Pinelands, Langa, and Mitchell's Plain.

★ ''South Peninsula'' - Hout Bay, Wynberg, Constantia, Fish Hoek, Kommetjie, Noordhoek, and Simon's Town.

★ ''Blaauwberg'' - Milnerton, Tableview, and Bloubergstrand.

★ ''Tygerberg'' - Tygerberg, Durbanville, Bellvile, and Khayelitsha.

★ ''Oostenberg'' - Kraaifontein, Brackenfell, Kuilsrivier, Blue Downs, and Eerste River.

★ ''Helderberg'' - Somerset West, Strand, and Gordon's Bay.

Council seat breakdown

Party	PR seats	Ward seats	Total seats
Democratic Alliance	29	61	90
African National Congress	40	41	81
Independent Democrats	20	3	23
African Christian Democratic Party	7	0	7
Africa Muslim Party	3	0	3
United Democratic Movement	2	0	2
Pan Africanist Congress	1	0	1
United Independent Front	1	0	1
Universal Party	1	0	1
Freedom Front Plus	1	0	1
Total	105	105	210
Multiparty forum coalition	62	64	126

Geography

The municipality has a total area of 2499 km².^[1]

Adjacent municipalities

★ Swartland Local Municipality, West Coast District Municipality (north)

★ Drakenstein Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality (northeast)

★ Stellenbosch Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality (northeast)

★ Theewaterskloof Local Municipality, Overberg District Municipality (southeast)

★ Overstrand Local Municipality, Overberg District Municipality (southeast)

★ ''Atlantic Ocean'' (south, west)

See also

★ Cape Town

★ Metropolitan municipality (South Africa)

★ List of Cape Town suburbs

References

1. City of Cape Town
2. It's Mayor Zille for Cape Town
3. Seat Calculation Summary: City of Cape Town
4. City of Cape Town

External links

★ City of Cape Town official website