City of Cape Town

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This article is about the municipality. For the city itself, see Cape Town.

The area governed by the City of Cape Town, shown within the Western Cape.

The City of Cape Town (Afrikaans: Stad Kaapstad; Xhosa: Isixeko saseKapa; in full 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.

Contents

1 Government
2 Geography

2.1 Adjacent municipalities

3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Government

Cape Town is governed by a 210-member city council, who answer to a 28-member executive council. This in turn is presided over by a city manager and an executive mayor. 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 mayor is chosen by the city council.

The current mayor is Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance. 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.

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.

Geography

The municipality has a total area of 2499 km².

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)

References

External links

[City of Cape Town official website]

[http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit]

Western Cape Province of South Africa

Capital	Cape Town
Regions	Cape Peninsula \| Cape Winelands \| Garden Route \| Little Karoo \| Overberg \| West Coast
Cities	Cape Town
Largest towns	George \| Knysna \| Oudtshoorn \| Paarl \| Robertson \| Stellenbosch \| Swellendam \| Worcester
Municipalities	Metropolitan: City of Cape Town District: Cape Winelands \| Central Karoo \| Eden \| Overberg \| West Coast Local: Beaufort West \| Bergrivier \| Bitou \| Breede River/Winelands \| Breede Valley \| Cape Agulhas \| Cederberg \| Drakenstein \| George \| Hessequa \| Kannaland \| Knysna \| Laingsburg \| Matzikama \| Mossel Bay \| Oudtshoorn \| Overstrand \| Prince Albert \| Saldanha Bay \| Stellenbosch \| Swartland \| Swellendam \| Theewaterskloof \| Witzenberg

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