Siyathemba Local Municipality
Siyathemba Local Municipality is a local municipality in the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality district of the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
E'Thembeni | 2.14 | 3,073 | Afrikaans | |
Marydale | 75.11 | 2,080 | Afrikaans | |
Niekerkshoop | 31.01 | 2,001 | Afrikaans | |
Prieska | 194.25 | 8,447 | Afrikaans | |
Westerberg | 10.41 | 0 | - | |
Remainder of the municipality | 7,938.90 | 1,920 | Afrikaans |
Politics
The municipal council consists of nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Five councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in five wards, while the remaining four 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 six seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.