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participate in any way, neither sending delegates nor providing information about itself. Kalk

Bay withdrew from the Committee on 29 May but had a change of heart in March 1912, a
few weeks before the Committee concluded its work, when Mayor John Delbridge was

deputed to represent it. Portrait photographs of the Mayors of the ten Peninsula municipalities
at this time are presented in Fig. 3.3.

In March 1912 the Report of the Municipal Unification Conference was published, together

with a Draft Unification Ordinance for circulation to the municipalities, with the intention of
eventually gaining approval of it by the Provincial Council. On 29 August the Conference

reassembled to consider various amendments suggested by the municipalities. By November
1912 a Second Draft Ordinance accommodating them had been framed and Municipal

Councils were able to vote on it and put it to meetings of their enrolled voters.

By this time the KB-MM supported unification. In May 1912 its Councillors had voted 6 to 1
in favour with Mayor Delbridge voting against it as he preferred amalgamation with only one

or more of the other municipalities. In August, after further consideration, the KB-MM

decided that if general unification failed it should approach the CoCT with a view to
amalgamation of the two municipalities. In December 1912 a meeting of enrolled voters at

the Masonic Hall, Muizenberg, voted 46 to 3 in favour of the following motion, the wording
of which was similar to that put to voters in the other municipalities:

“This this meeting of the enrolled voters of Kalk Bay, hereby places on record its
firm conviction that in the interests of the future development of the Cape

Peninsula, the City of Cape Town and Suburbs thereof, extending from Sea Point

to Muizenberg – Kalk Bay, should be incorporated as one Municipality, and
strongly urges that the necessary steps be taken by the authorities with a view to

giving effect to the unification thereof at the earliest possible moment.”

In 1912 a new municipal act had given women the local vote, although they were not yet
allowed to sit as councillors. On 28 July 1913 the Administrator of the Cape, Sir Frederic de

Waal, promulgated the City of Cape Town Unification Ordinance No. 19 “to provide for the