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The Municipality of Mossel Bay was constituted on 5 July 1865 in terms of Proclamation No 59 of 1865 under provision of Ordinance No 9 of 1836.

In terms of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998 (Act 117 of 1998) the existing Municipality of Mossel Bay together with the municipalities of Great Brak River and Herbertsdale, the Friemersheim Transitional Council, and the transitional representative councils of Mossel Bay and Outeniqua, was disestablished and the Mossel Bay Local Municipality established (Province of Western Cape Provincial Gazette Extraordinary No 5592, 22 September 2000, Provincial Notice No 500, 22 September 2000). The Mossel Bay Local Municipality forms part of the larger Garden Route District Municipality.

According to the Town Clerk all archives, with the exception of council and general standing committees minutes older than thirty years, were destroyed during a fire in 1961.

The Village Management Board of Kuruman was established on 12 June 1913 under provision of the Villages Management Act, 1881 and sections 80 and 81 of the South Africa Act, 1909, in terms of Proclamation No 144, 1913 (The Province of the Cape of Good Hope Official Gazette No 269, 11 July 1913).

The Municipality of Kuruman was established on 18 April 1916 under provision of section 10 of the Cape Municipal Ordinance, 1912 in terms of Proclamation No 71, 1916 (The Province of the Cape of Good Hope Official Gazette No 431, 21 April 1916).

In 1994 Kuruman became part of the Northern Cape Province. It forms part of the Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality, one of three local municipalities that falls under the John Taolo Gaetsewe (formerly Kgalagadi) District Municipality.