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Bergrivier Municipality (Afrikaans: Bergrivier Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It governs the towns of Piketberg (the seat of the municipal council), Velddrif and Porterville , as well as the surrounding villages and rural areas.
Bergrivier Local Municipality: WC013 West Coast Piketberg: 4,407 67,474 15.3 Bitou Local Municipality: WC047 Garden Route Plettenberg Bay: 992 59,157 59.6 Breede Valley Local Municipality: WC025 Cape Winelands Worcester: 3,834 176,578 46.1 Cape Agulhas Local Municipality: WC033 Overberg Bredasdorp: 3,471 36,000 10.4 Cederberg Local Municipality ...
The school crest represents the environs of Velddrif. Five wavy white lanes represent water, namely the Berg River and the sea. The boat is a stylized version of a fishing boat, honoring Velddrif's fishing industry, on which the town's economy was largely built. The bridge indicates the bridge between youth and adulthood.
The council of the West Coast District Municipality consists of twenty-five councillors, of whom ten are directly elected by party-list proportional representation.The other fifteen councillors are appointed by the councils of the five local municipalities in the district: Saldanha Bay appoints five, Swartland appoints four, and Matzikama, Cederberg and Bergrivier appoint two each.
At the local elections of December 2000 the TLCs and TRCs were dissolved and the Cederberg Municipality was established as a single local authority incorporating both rural and urban areas. In 2011 the Cederberg Wilderness Area, previously a District Management Areas, was added to the municipality when District Management Areas were abolished.
'white water') is a town in Bergrivier Local Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa, located off the R399 road, between Piketberg and Velddrif. [2] It was established in the 1857 by German Moravian missionaries. [3] The town name, 'white water', references the waterfall that emerges behind it during winter rain. [3]
The Bergrivier Local Municipality council consists of thirteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining six are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
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