Sol Plaatje Municipality (Afrikaans: Sol Plaatje Munisipaliteit; Tswana: Mmasepala wa Sol Plaatje) is a local municipality within the Frances Baard District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is named after Sol T. Plaatje. It includes the diamond mining city of Kimberley.
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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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Mayors
Maria Chwarisang
Patrick Lenyibi
Patrick Everyday
Agnes Ntlhangula
David Molusi
Mangaliso Matika
Pule Thabane
Patrick Mabilo
Kagisho Dante Sonyoni
Martha Bartlett