Eden District Municipality
The Eden District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC4.
Geography
The Eden district covers an area of 23,331 square kilometres (9,008 sq mi) in the southeastern part of the Western Cape, covering the regions known as the Garden Route and the Little Karoo. It stretches to the Breede River mouth and the Langeberg mountains on the west, where it abuts the Overberg District Municipality and (for a short distance) the Cape Winelands District Municipality. To the north the boundary with the Central Karoo District Municipality runs along the Swartberg mountains. In the east the municipality runs up to the Eastern Cape provincial boundary.
The district is divided into seven local municipalities, described in the following table.
| Name | Seat | Population
(2011) | Area
(km2) | Density
(inhabitants/km2) |
| Kannaland[4] | Ladismith | 24,767 | 4,758 | 5.2 |
| Hessequa[5] | Riversdale | 52,642 | 5,733 | 9.2 |
| Mossel Bay[6] | Mossel Bay | 89,430 | 2,011 | 44.5 |
| George[7] | George | 193,672 | 5,191 | 37.3 |
| Oudtshoorn[8] | Oudtshoorn | 95,933 | 3,537 | 27.1 |
| Bitou[9] | Plettenberg Bay | 49,162 | 992 | 49.6 |
| Knysna[10] | Knysna | 68,659 | 1,109 | 61.9 |
| Total | 574,265 | 23,331 | 24.6 |
Demographics
The following statistics are from the 2011 Census.[11] Note that due to fuzzing applied to statistics, columns may not sum to exactly the indicated total.
First language
| Language | Population | % |
| Afrikaans | 397,462 | 70.8% |
| Xhosa | 102,740 | 18.3% |
| English | 42,266 | 7.5% |
| Sotho | 3,412 | 0.6% |
| Tswana | 2,675 | 0.5% |
| Zulu | 1,960 | 0.3% |
| Sign language | 1,856 | 0.3% |
| Ndebele | 1,014 | 0.2% |
| Tsonga | 739 | 0.1% |
| Northern Sotho | 654 | 0.1% |
| Venda | 527 | 0.1% |
| Swazi | 296 | 0.1% |
| Other | 5,687 | 1.0% |
| Total | 561,288 | |
| Not applicable | 12,975 | |
Race
|
Gender
| Gender | Population | % |
| Female |
293,346 |
51.1% |
| Male |
280,919 |
48.9% |
| Total |
574,265 |
|
Age
| Age group | Population | % |
| 0–4 | 53,344 | 9.3% |
| 5–9 | 47,897 | 8.3% |
| 10–14 | 47,222 | 8.2% |
| 15–19 | 47,552 | 8.3% |
| 20–24 | 48,218 | 8.4% |
| 25–29 | 50,138 | 8.7% |
| 30–34 | 42,028 | 7.3% |
| 35–39 | 41,617 | 7.2% |
| 40–44 | 40,188 | 7.0% |
| 45–49 | 35,231 | 6.1% |
| 50–54 | 29,921 | 5.2% |
| 55–59 | 24,726 | 4.3% |
| 60–64 | 21,322 | 3.7% |
| 65–69 | 16,455 | 2.9% |
| 70–74 | 12,525 | 2.2% |
| 75–79 | 7,845 | 1.4% |
| 80–84 | 4,559 | 0.8% |
| 85+ | 2,162 | 0.4% |
| Total | 574,265 | |
|
Politics
The council of the Eden District Municipality consists of thirty-five councillors, of whom fifteen are directly elected by party-list proportional representation, and twenty are appointed by the councils of the constituent local municipalities: six by George, four by Mossel Bay, three by Oudtshoorn, two each by Hessequa, Bitou and Knysna, and one by Kannaland. As of August 2012 there are seventeen councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA) representatives, thirteen from the African National Congress (ANC), two each from the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA) and one from the Congress of the People (COPE).[12] The mayor is Vernatt van der Westhuizen and the deputy mayor is Lionel Esau; both are members of the DA.[13]
The following table shows the detailed composition of the council.[12]
| | DA | ANC | ICOSA | ACDP | COPE |
| Directly elected | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Appointed by Kannaland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Appointed by Hessequa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Appointed by Mossel Bay | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Appointed by George | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Appointed by Oudtshoorn | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Appointed by Bitou | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Appointed by Knysna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
The following table shows the results of the election of the fifteen directly elected councillors on 18 May 2011.[14]
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