Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality

Karoo Hoogland
Local municipality
Seal
Location in the Northern Cape
Coordinates: 31°45′S 21°15′E / 31.750°S 21.250°E / -31.750; 21.250
Country	South Africa
Province	Northern Cape
District	Namakwa
Seat	Williston
Wards	6
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Anthony Mietas (PA)
Area
• Total	32,274 km2 (12,461 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	12,588
• Density	0.39/km2 (1.0/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	5.5%
• Coloured	78.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.7%
• White	14.6%
First languages (2011) [3]
• Afrikaans	96.3%
• English	1.3%
• Other	2.4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	NC066

Karoo Hoogland Municipality (Afrikaans: Karoo Hoogland Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Namakwa District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The municipality incorporates the towns of Williston, Fraserburg and Sutherland. Although the towns are separated by more than 100 km by road, they share many administrative tasks.

Hoogland is an Afrikaans word meaning "highland" and Karoo is a Khoekhoe word meaning "hard" or "dry". The name reflects the area which has dry, arid and desert-like conditions.^[4]

In 2011, Karoo Hoogland elected the first mayor from the Congress of the People (COPE) party, Jan Julies, and a COPE-DA coalition took control of the council after the election of 18 May 2011.^[5] This lasted until the 2016 elections.