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:
Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
Amacwera | | 376.11 | 29,102 | Xhosa |
Amanci | | 310.80 | 35,238 | Xhosa |
Bala | | 3.83 | 271 | Xhosa |
Fikeni | | 2.47 | 164 | Xhosa |
Lwandlolubomvu | | 518.70 | 46,140 | Xhosa |
Ntlenzi | | 124.41 | 12,586 | Xhosa |
Tabankulu Town | | 11.40 | 2,169 | Xhosa |
Tabankulu | | 0.84 | 61 | Xhosa |
Xesibe | | 112.06 | 10,658 | Xhosa |
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.