Kareeberg Local Municipality is a local municipality in the
Pixley ka Seme District Municipality
Pixley ka Seme is one of the five districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Pixley ka Seme is De Aar. The majority (77%) of its 186,351 people speak Afrikaans as first language (2011 Census). The district code is DC ...
district of the
Northern Cape province of
South Africa
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. The name originates from a mountain range in the region, the
Karee Mountains.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
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 a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
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.
By-elections from November 2021
The following
by-elections
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were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021.
References
External links
Official website
Local municipalities of the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality
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