| Sol Plaatje | |
| Settlement Type: | Local municipality |
| Seal Size: | 150x100px |
| Coordinates: | -28.8333°N 64°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Northern Cape |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Frances Baard |
| Seat: | Kimberley |
| Parts Type: | Wards |
| Parts: | 31 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Government Type: | Municipal council |
| Leader Party: | ANC |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Kagisho Dante Sonyoni[2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 3145 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 270,078 |
| Population As Of: | 2022 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup |
| Demographics1 Footnotes: | [4] |
| Demographics1 Info1: | 62.0% |
| Demographics1 Info2: | 27.9% |
| Demographics1 Info3: | 1.3% |
| Demographics1 Info4: | 8.7% |
| Demographics Type2: | First languages |
| Demographics2 Footnotes: | [5] |
| Demographics2 Info1: | 45.2% |
| Demographics2 Info2: | 33.2% |
| Demographics2 Info3: | 8.0% |
| Demographics2 Info4: | 5.6% |
| Demographics2 Info5: | 8% |
| Timezone1: | SAST |
| Utc Offset1: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank Info Sec1: | NC091 |
Sol Plaatje Municipality (af|Sol Plaatje Munisipaliteit; tn|Mmasepala wa Sol Plaatje) is a local municipality within the Frances Baard District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is named after Sol T. Plaatje. It includes the diamond mining city of Kimberley.
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[6]
| Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 383005 | 15.24 | 107,920 | ||
| 383006 | 142.77 | 96,977 | ||
| 383008 | 0.86 | 7,240 | ||
| 383004 | 1.77 | 5,185 | ||
| 383007 | 23.93 | 7,610 | ||
| 383003 | 6.28 | 20,263 | ||
| 383001 | 110.13 | 0 | ||
| Non-urban areas | 383002 | 2,844.41 | 2,846 | |
| Total | 3,145.39 | 248,041 | ||
See main article: Sol Plaatje Local Municipality elections. The municipal council consists of sixty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-three wards, while the remaining thirty-two are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.[7] [8]
| Sol Plaatje local election, 1 November 2021 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
| Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
| 30,837 | 30,913 | 61,750 | 50.2% | 27 | 6 | 33 | ||
| 12,591 | 12,702 | 25,293 | 20.5% | 6 | 8 | 14 | ||
| 5,600 | 5,994 | 11,594 | 9.4% | 0 | 6 | 6 | ||
| 2,645 | 2,923 | 5,568 | 4.5% | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 2,577 | 2,834 | 5,411 | 4.4% | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 2,243 | 2,096 | 4,339 | 3.5% | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 2,092 | 2,099 | 4,191 | 3.4% | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1,648 | – | 1,648 | 1.3% | 0 | – | 0 | ||
| 570 | 456 | 1,026 | 0.8% | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 183 | 394 | 577 | 0.5% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 274 | 269 | 543 | 0.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 234 | 251 | 485 | 0.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 135 | 147 | 282 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 129 | 91 | 220 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 121 | 64 | 185 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 61,879 | 61,233 | 123,112 | 33 | 32 | 65 | ||
| Valid votes | 61,879 | 61,233 | 123,112 | 98.4% | ||||
| Spoilt votes | 907 | 1,097 | 2,004 | 1.6% | ||||
| Total votes cast | 62,786 | 62,330 | 125,116 | |||||
| Voter turnout | 63,026 | |||||||
| Registered voters | 128,236 | |||||||
| Turnout percentage | 49.1% | |||||||