Karoo Hoogland is an administrative area in the Namakwa District

Namakwa District Municipality

Namakwa is one of the 5 districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Namakwa is Springbok and the region is also known as Little Namaqualand. The majority of its 108 118 people speak Afrikaans...

 of Northern Cape

Northern Cape

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 in South Africa

South Africa

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Hoogland an Afrikaans word meaning "highland" and Karoo is a Khoi word meaning "hard" or "dry". The name reflects the area which has dry, arid and dessert-like conditions.

The municipality incorporates the towns of Williston

Williston, Northern Cape

Williston is a town in Northern Cape, South Africa. Originally settled by people from Germany, the town was renamed in honor of Hampden Willis in 1883.-References:...

, Fraserburg

Fraserburg

Fraserburg is a town in the Karoo region of South Africa's Northern Cape province.It was established in 1851 on the farm Rietfontein, and named after the Scottish immigrant Reverend Colin Fraser, and a church elder G.J. Meyburgh. Prior to the town establishment the earliest known inhabitants of the...

 and Sutherland

Sutherland, Northern Cape

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. Although the towns are separated by more than 100 km by road, they share many administrative tasks.

Jan Julies was elected the first COPE mayor of the municipality in 2011, as a COPE-DA coalition took control of the council after the election of 18 May 2011.