Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality


Karoo Hoogland is an administrative area in the Namakwa District of Northern Cape in South Africa.
Hoogland an Afrikaans word meaning "highland" and Karoo is a Khoi word meaning "hard" or "dry". The name reflects the area which has dry, arid and desert-like conditions.
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.
Karoo Hoogland elected the first mayor from COPE, Jan Julies, in 2011, as 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:

Politics

The municipal council consists of seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in four wards, while the remaining three 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 won a majority of four seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.