Sol Plaatje Local Municipality
The Sol Plaatje Local Municipality is a local municipality in the Frances Baard District Municipality district of the Northern Cape province, South Africa, named after Sol T. Plaatje. It includes the diamond mining city of Kimberley.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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of thirty-eight seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
In by-elections held on 13 February 2019, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below:Mayors
