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15-654: The municipality is named after Reverend W Richter, a Dutch missionary from the 20th century who opened a mission station in Kuboes . Richtersveld is part of Little Namaqualand , the part of Namaqualand south of the Orange River . The original inhabitants of Namaqualand were overwhelmingly Khoi Khoi , but also included some San people . During the 19th century, other people started settling in Little Namaqualand. These included some white Trekboere , and also

30-606: A number of so-called basters . Missionaries too started showing an interest in Little Namaqualand. The Rhenish Missionary Society established a mission station under the charge of Reverend Hein at Kuboes during the mid 19th century. On 23 December 1847 the British Crown, through annexation, extended the northern boundary of the then Cape Province from the Buffels River up to the Orange River. From that date

45-415: Is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems . An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list ) or can constitute a group of independent candidates. Lists can be open , in which case electors have some influence over the ranking of the winning candidates, or closed , in which case

60-597: The Northern Cape province of South Africa . Kuboes was one of the first permanent settlements on the Richtersveld . The town grew around a Rhenish mission set up by revered Johan Hein, who began to preach to the nomadic population of the surrounding areas in 1844. A church was built in 1893, and eventually the itinerant population decided to set up in Kuboes itself. Kuboes is a centre of Nama culture, and

75-571: The casual vacancy in a list-PR system is typically filled by the highest-ranked candidate on the departed representative's list who was not already elected. For personal or party-strategic reasons, this person may choose to cede the place to a lower-ranked colleague. Replacement lists are sometimes used to fill casual vacancies in single transferable vote electoral systems. An example is European Parliament elections in Ireland since 1984 . In New Zealand's mixed-member proportional (MMP) system ,

90-579: The "party list" refers to the closed list of candidates nominated by a registered party for election to the New Zealand Parliament . Voters cast two votes: one for an electorate candidate and one for the party at large. The "party vote" generally determines the overall distribution of seats in Parliament, with candidates from the party list being elected based on their ranking on the list. The state list ( German : Landesliste )

105-432: The committee's work. The committee's proposed list may then be changed in a selection meeting, where new candidates may be added, or existing candidates may be moved or removed from the list. When the internal process is over, the final list is made public. The list may be printed on the ballot paper cast by voters at the election, or on a separate voter information paper. When an elected representative vacates their seat,

120-613: The local school is claimed to be the only school in the world that teaches the Nama language . This Northern Cape location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Party list Condorcet methods Positional voting Cardinal voting Quota-remainder methods Approval-based committees Fractional social choice Semi-proportional representation By ballot type Pathological response Strategic voting Paradoxes of majority rule Positive results An electoral list

135-512: The mouth of the Orange River, and Sanddrif (pop. 1,854) which is adjacent to the Baken diamond mine . Other smaller settlements in the municipality include Sendelingsdrif (pop. 192) and Grootderm (pop. 80) along the Orange River, and Kuboes (pop. 948), Eksteenfontein (pop. 531) and Lekkersing (pop. 363) in the interior. The northernmost part of the municipal area is part of the ǀAi-ǀAis/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park , while immediately to

150-620: The north-western corner of South Africa where the Atlantic coast meets the Orange River border with Namibia . It borders on the Nama Khoi Local Municipality to the south and east, Namibia's ǁKaras Region to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. At the time of the 2011 census the municipality had a population of 11,982 in 3,543. The principal language was Afrikaans which is spoken by 87.0% of

165-581: The order of candidates is fixed at the registration of the list. Electoral lists are required for party-list proportional representation systems. An electoral list is made according to the applying nomination rules and election rules . Depending on the type of election, a political party , a general assembly , or a board meeting, may elect or appoint a nominating committee that will add, and if required, prioritize list-candidates according to their preferences. Qualification, popularity, gender, age, geography, and occupation are preferences that may influence

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180-466: The population, followed by isiXhosa (spoken by 6.1%) and English (spoken by 2.6%). 76.6% of the population identified themselves as " Coloured ", 13.1% as " Black African ", and 8.5% as " White ". The principal town of the municipality is Port Nolloth (population 6,092 in 2011) which lies on the Atlantic coast in the southern part of the municipality. Other towns are Alexander Bay (pop. 1,736) at

195-566: The remaining five 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 six seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. Kuboes Kuboes is a town in Richtersveld Local Municipality in

210-661: The south of the park is the Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape World Heritage Site . The main transport route in the municipality is the R382 road which runs from Steinkopf (where it connects to the N7 highway) west to Port Nolloth, and then north along the coast to Alexander Bay. The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation . Six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in six wards , while

225-624: The whole of Little Namaqualand (including the Richtersveld) became subject to British rule. In 1925 diamonds were discovered near Port Nolloth . In 1927 a particularly rich deposit was found at the mouth of the Orange River at Alexander Bay . Many people moved into the area. Throughout the 1960s through 1998, a Light Infantry Regiment of the SADF was garrisoned here along with 2 batteries of Self-Propelled Artillery The municipality covers an area of 9,608 square kilometres (3,710 sq mi) in

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