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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
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
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