Hantam is an administrative area in the
Namakwa District of
Northern Cape in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
Hatam is a
Khoi
Khoekhoen (singular Khoekhoe) (or Khoikhoi in the former orthography; formerly also '' Hottentots''"Hottentot, n. and adj." ''OED Online'', Oxford University Press, March 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/88829. Accessed 13 May 2018. Citing G. S. ...
name that means "mountains where the bulbs grow". The municipality is named after the
Hantam Mountains found in the area.
Main places
The
2011 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Finances
In the 2018/19 financial year, 78% of the council's expenditure was deemed unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful, down from 95% the previous year. At the end of the 2019 year, the council had a cash balance to cover its operating costs for ten days.
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
in seven
wards, while the remaining six 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 no party obtained a majority of seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
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{{Municipalities of the Northern Cape
Local municipalities of the Namakwa District Municipality