WARD DELIMITATION 2019 to 2020 WARD DELIMITATION PROCESS

WARD DELIMITATION 2019 to 2020

WARD DELIMITATION PROCESS 2018 – 2021 DAWID KRUIPER LOCAL MUNICIPALITY 09 July 2020 via ZOOM Delegation: Mr Smiso Dlamini: Provincial Coordinator Northern Cape Mr Mthobisi Manzini: Assistant Provincial Coordinator 2

PRESENTATION LAYOUT 1. INTRODUCTION 2. WARD DELIMITATION PROCESS 3. LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES 4. OVERVIEW OF THE MUNICIPALITY 5. HOW TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS 6. BROAD PLAN 7. CONCLUSION 3

INTRODUCTION 1. Every five years, the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) delimits wards in metropolitan and local municipalities for electoral purposes. 2. The wards have to be delimited for the following reasons: a. Change in number of Councillors within a municipality; and b. Change in number of registered voters within a municipality. 3. The process must be concluded ideally not less than 10 months before the local government elections. 4. The MDB had planned the handover final wards delimitated to the IEC by August 2020. 5. The Covid-19 disrupted the public engagement process when the Board had only consulted with 4 provinces. 4

INTRODUCTION (CONT. . ) 6. The MDB consulted with the IEC and thus revised its programme accordingly. 7. The new date for the handover of final delimited wards will be November 2020. 8. The MDB, after consultation with the Independent Electoral Commission, reviewed the ward delimitation programme to try allow more time to possibly complete all outstanding public consultations. In view of the uncertainty of the circumstances regarding the spread of the Corona virus in the country, the MDB divided the programme into two groups i. e. Batch 1 and Batch 2: a. BATCH 1: municipalities where public meetings have already been completed; and b. BATCH 2: municipalities where public meetings were cancelled. 5

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STATUS FOR THE WARD DELIMITATION PROCESS 1. The IEC has published the certified voters roll in March 2019 2. The Minister has published the formula for determining the number of Cllrs for different categories of municipalities on the 5 th July 2019 3. The MEC’s responsible for local government in each province have all published the number of councillors per municipality. 4. MDB calculated the norms for each municipality together with their variances, i. e. 15% below the norm (minimum) and 15% above the norm (maximum) allowable number of voters in each municipal ward. 5. The MDB conducted technical consultations with municipal officials in August and September 2019 to prepare draft wards. 6. Draft wards (no legal status) were prepared and distributed to all municipalities and are also available on the MDB website (www. demarcation. org. za) or on request at 012 342 2481. 7. Public consultations meetings began February and were to be completed by 30 April 2020. 7

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES 1. Keep to the number of wards allowed for your municipality. 2. Use voting districts as building blocks and ensure that wards are contiguous. 3. Cluster voting districts together to make up wards, follow voting district boundaries when drawing ward boundaries. 4. Try not to split voting districts. 5. Keep the total number of registered voters per ward, as close as possible to the norm (average number of registered voters per ward), within the minimum and maximum allowed. 6. Try not to split obvious communities / groupings of villages / suburbs, traditional areas etc. - if at all possible. 8

LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES (CONT) 7. Take physical characteristics into account e. g. adequate road networks, and physical barriers such as a freeways, rivers, mountains, etc. 8. Keep current ward numbers and boundaries the same, if possible. 9. Ensure compliance with the norm for each ward. 9

APPLICATION OF THE NORM IN DAWID KRUIPER LOCAL MUNICIPALITY 1. Norm (Average) is equal to number of registered voters in the municipality divide by number of wards in the municipality. Dawid Kruiper has 59526 registered voters and 17 wards: Norm = 59526/17= 3501 Min norm = 2976 Max norm = 4026 Thus, wards in Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality may have any number of registered voters between 2976 and 4026. 10

HOW TO CREATE A WARD E. g. Using voting districts, registered voters and municipal norm (1000) GRACELAND LEARNING CENTER 110 76320479 250 MAKGOFE HIGH SCHOOL 76320514 190 76320503 MOLAUTSI SECONDARY SCHOOL ERNEST MATLOU PRIMARY SCHOOL SPOKOPARK SETHOA CRECHE 230 155 76320491 76321379 VOTING REGISTERED NORM/ DISTRICT VOTERS VARIANCES 1 170 2 230 3 110 4 190 5 250 1150 (15% 6 155 Above Norm) 1000 (Municipal TOTAL 1105 Norm) 850 (15% Below Norm) The ward is compliant with 1105 registered voters, i. e. between 850 and 1150 KWENA OFENTSE LEARNING AND CARE CENTRE 170 76321380 11

CHALLENGES 1. Some settlements and/or traditional council areas are large and thus not always possible to delimit them into a single ward. Due to the large size of some settlements and/or traditional council areas it is not always possible to delimit them into a single ward. 2. The sizes of wards vary in spatial size and extent due to the density of voters, areas with low voter density have bigger wards and vice versa. 3. Lack of understanding of the legislative provisions e. g. some people (including key stakeholders) request for more councillors or more wards from MDB. 4. Uncoordinated and contradictory submissions from stakeholders/communities. 12

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HOW TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS 1. Submissions can be made by writing to the Speakers Office proposing the grouping of Voting districts for ward configuration of one’s choice. 2. Submissions may also be made by completing MDB ward delimitation form (not compulsory) that consists of three sections: a. MDB 1 - Form to notify the MDB that local consultations on the MDB’s draft ward boundaries, have been completed and that the municipality and local stakeholder agree with the MDB’s draft ward boundaries. b. MDB 2 - Form to notify the MDB that the municipality and local stakeholders do not agree with some or all the MDB’s draft ward boundaries, and to submit to the MDB alternative proposals on which consensus has been reached with local stakeholders. c. MDB 3 - Form to submit to the MDB separate individual proposals on ward boundaries where there is disagreement with the MDB and the municipality’s draft wards. 3. Please send this form or submissions to the SPEAKER: a. email (Kedibone. ntakatsane@dkm. gov. z); or b. by fax 054 -338 7503; c. via Whatsapp number: 082 838 1900 4. All submissions must be sent to Speakers Office by 28 July 2020 14

HOW TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS (CONT…) EXAMPLE OF MDB SUBMISSION FORM (Adjacent voting districts are to be clustered to form a ward) WARD NUMBER Ward number Ward 4 PROPOSAL Voting Station Name/Number of registered voters in VD VD 80182384 (1230) 1230 VD 80180089 (1900) 1900 VD 80230454 (762) 762 Total = 3892 15

REVISED PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES DATES CLOSING DATE FOR WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS (BATCH 2) 31 JULY 2020 FINALISE DRAFT WARDS AFTER RECEIVING INPUTS FROM PUBLIC AUGUST 2020 MEETINGS AND WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS (BATCH 2) PRESENT DRAFT WARDS TO THE BOARD (BATCH 2) AUGUST 2020 PUBLICATION OF DRAFT WARDS FOR OBJECTIONS (BATCH 2) SEPTEMBER 2020 CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS RECEIVED (BATCH 2) OCTOBER 2020 DETERMINATION OF FINAL WARDS BY THE BOARD (BATCH 2) OCTOBER 2020 PUBLISH FINAL WARDS (BATCH 2) NOVEMBER 2020 WARD HANDOVER TO IEC – PRESS RELEASE (BATCH 2) NOVEMBER 2020 16

CONCLUSION 1. Meaningful public inputs will ensure a successful ward delimitation process, one that will promote free and fair elections. 2. The success of MDB’s work is dependent on efficient collaboration with all stakeholders including: municipalities, provincial departments responsible for local government, traditional leadership strucures, political parties, civil organisations and members of the public. 17

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