ABOUT US

Siyancuma Municipality was established on the 4th of December 2000 through a section 12 notice as published in the Extra Ordinary Northern Cape Provincial Government Gazette Number 562 Notice Number 30 of 2000 as published on the 3rd of October 2000.

• It is established as a Category “B” municipality falling within the Category “C” municipality of Pixley ka Seme District Municipality.
• The seat of the municipality is Douglas.
• The municipality includes former Transitional Local Councils of Douglas, Griekwastad and Campbell.
• Douglas is well known for a geographic feature found in Douglas only – The confluence of The Vaal and The Orange Rivers – the two biggest rivers of South Africa.
• Griekwastad is known for its unending stream of underground water. There are submissions indicating that the underground stream in Griekwastad is connected to the famous ‘EYE’ in Kuruman.
• It includes as well the former Rural Councils of Hey and Herbert, which includes areas like Schmidtsdrift, Malabar, Vaallus, Salt Lake, Plooysburg, Heuningneskloof, Belmont, Witput, Schaans, Moosfontein and Bucklands. Bucklands and Schmidtsdrift are two land restitution cases within our municipal area where the land belongs to the claimants and not to the municipality. 
• Siyancuma is basically a farming area.
• There are diamond as well as tigers eye deposits in the Douglas and Griekwastad areas respectively.
• It is hoped that the different charters brought into being by government will ultimately have an effect in our municipality in changing the face of business especially in mining and agriculture businesses.