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The Cape Winelands District Municipality, formerly the Boland District Municipality, is
a district municipality located in the Boland region of the Western Cape province of South
Africa. As of 2011, it had a population of 787,490.[2] The largest towns in the municipality are
Paarl, Worcester, Stellenbosch and Wellington.

Contents


1 Geography
o 1.1 Adjacent municipalities



2 Politics



3 Demographics
o 3.1 First language
o 3.2 Race
o 3.3 Gender
o 3.4 Age



4 References



5 External links

Geography

Stellenbosch office of the Cape Winelands District Municipality
The boundaries of this municipality, which covers an area of 22,289 square kilometres
(8,606 sq mi),[4] coincide roughly with the boundaries of the geographical area that has been
known since the early days of the Cape Colony as "The Boland". In Afrikaans Boland means
"up land" or "the higher land" or "the land above" (i.e. in contrast to the low coastal areas of
the original Dutch settlement at the Cape). However, the term "Boland", as originally used,
was a loose concept, with no defined borders (cf. the informal but not meaningless terms
"The Sahara" or "The Rocky Mountains"). The Boland is generally mountainous, with range

after range of beautiful and isolated sandstone peaks reaching towards 2000m but also has
broad, fertile valleys that are home to some of the country's finest vineyards.
The region has a Mediterranean climate. Summers are hot and dry and winters cool and
damp, with snow on the peaks during August and September. The extent and diversity of the
geographical features here are truly marvellous. There are so many peaks, ranges,
escarpments, valleys, cliffs, rivers, pools, waterfalls, screes, canyons, springs, forests, caves
and other natural features that no person could visit all of them in a lifetime.
The Cape Winelands District Municipality is divided into five local municipalities, which are
described in the following table.
Name
Witzenberg[5]
Drakenstein[6]
Stellenbosch[7]
Breede Valley[8]
Langeberg[9]
Total

Seat

Population

Area

Density

(2011)

(km2)

(inhabitants/km2)

Ceres
Paarl
Stellenbosch
Worcester
Ashton

115,946
251,262
155,733
166,825
97,724
787,490

10,753
1,538
831
3,833
4,518
21,473

10.8
163.4
187.4
43.5
21.6
36.7

Adjacent municipalities


Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape (north)



Central Karoo District Municipality (east)



Eden District Municipality (east)



Overberg District Municipality (south)



City of Cape Town (southwest)



West Coast District Municipality (west)

Politics
The council of the Cape Winelands District Municipality consists of forty councillors, of
whom sixteen are directly elected by party-list proportional representation, and twenty-four
are appointed by the councils of the constituent local municipalities: eight by Drakenstein,
five each by Stellenbosch and Breede Valley, and three each by Witzenberg and Langeberg.
As of August 2012 there are twenty-four councillors representing the Democratic Alliance
(DA), thirteen representing the African National Congress (ANC), and one each representing
the Congress of the Peo

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