Ntabankulu Local Municipality


Ntabankulu Local Municipality is a local municipality in Alfred Nzo District Municipality in the Wild Coast Region of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.
Ntabankulu is an isiXhosa name meaning "great or big mountain", since the municipal area is mountainous in character.
It was formerly part of the OR Tambo District Municipality, but was transferred to the Alfred Nzo District Municipality after the 2011 municipal election.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Amacwera376.1129,102Xhosa
Amanci310.8035,238Xhosa
Bala3.83271Xhosa
Fikeni2.47164Xhosa
Lwandlolubomvu518.7046,140Xhosa
Ntlenzi124.4112,586Xhosa
Tabankulu Town11.402,169Xhosa
Tabankulu0.8461Xhosa
Xesibe112.0610,658Xhosa

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining seventeen 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of twenty-nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.