Gariep Local Municipality is a defunct
local municipality in
Joe Gqabi District Municipality,
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha.
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. The municipality was merged with
Maletswai Local Municipality
Maletswai Local Municipality is a now defunct administrative area in the Joe Gqabi District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The municipality was merged with Gariep Local Municipality immediately after the August 2016 Local Municipal Elect ...
immediately after the August 2016 Local Municipal Elections to form the new
Walter Sisulu Local Municipality
Walter Sisulu Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Joe Gqabi District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The municipality was formed by the merging of Maletswai and Gariep Local Municipality immediately after the August 2016 L ...
.
Main places
The
2011 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consisted of ten members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation
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. Five councillors were elected by
first-past-the-post voting in five
wards
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, while the remaining five were chosen from
party list
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s so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the
election of 18 May 2011 the
African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120914054225/http://www.gariep.gov.za/
Former local municipalities of South Africa
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