Raymond Mhlaba Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Raymond Mhlaba; Afrikaans: Raymond Mhlaba Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by merging the Nkonkobe and Nxuba local municipalities.[2]
Raymond Mhlaba | |
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| Coordinates: 32°46′S 26°38′E / 32.77°S 26.63°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Eastern Cape |
| District | Amathole |
| Seat | Fort Beaufort |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Bandile Ketelo (ANC) |
| • Speaker | Anele Ntsangani (ANC) |
| • Chief Whip | Lindelwa Penisi (ANC) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,358 km2 (2,455 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 151,379 |
| • Density | 24/km2 (62/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Municipal code | EC129 |
Towns/villages in the municipal area edit
- Fort Beaufort (seat)
- Adelaide
- Alice
- Balfour
- Bedford
- Healdtown township
- Hogsback
- Katberg
- Middledrift
- Seymour
Politics edit
The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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 thirty-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[3]
| Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| African National Congress | 26,026 | 70.11 | 20 | 26,940 | 75.44 | 13 | 33 | |
| Economic Freedom Fighters | 2,277 | 6.13 | 0 | 2,806 | 7.86 | 3 | 3 | |
| Democratic Alliance | 2,475 | 6.67 | 0 | 2,553 | 7.15 | 3 | 3 | |
| Independent candidates | 5,008 | 13.49 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Patriotic Alliance | 587 | 1.58 | 0 | 650 | 1.82 | 1 | 1 | |
| African Independent Congress | 998 | 2.79 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pan Africanist Congress of Azania | 250 | 0.67 | 0 | 746 | 2.09 | 1 | 1 | |
| African Transformation Movement | 150 | 0.40 | 0 | 632 | 1.77 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freedom Front Plus | 144 | 0.39 | 0 | 159 | 0.45 | 0 | 0 | |
| Congress of the People | 47 | 0.13 | 0 | 226 | 0.63 | 0 | 0 | |
| Land Party | 156 | 0.42 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 37,120 | 100.00 | 23 | 35,710 | 100.00 | 22 | 45 | |
| Valid votes | 37,120 | 97.83 | 35,710 | 94.28 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 825 | 2.17 | 2,167 | 5.72 | ||||
| Total votes | 37,945 | 100.00 | 37,877 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 78,861 | 48.12 | 78,861 | 48.03 | ||||
References edit
- ^ a b Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Nkonkobe, Nxuba.
- ^ "The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Raymond Mhlaba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-03-03.