Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality is a
local municipality of
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 ...
. It was established after the
August 2016 local elections by the merging of
Nkonkobe and
Nxuba local municipalities.
Towns/villages in the municipal area
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Fort Beaufort
Fort Beaufort ( Xhosa: iBhofolo) is a town in the Amatole District of South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, and had a population of 25,668 in 2011. The town was established in 1837 and became a municipality in 1883. The town lies at the conflu ...
(seat)
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Adelaide
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Alice
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Balfour
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Bedford
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Healdtown township
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Hogsback
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Katberg
Katberg is a hamlet high up in Raymond Mhlaba Municipality, Amathole District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa
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Middledrift
Ixesi (also Middeldrift or Middledrift) is a small town located north-west of East London in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated in Raymond Mhlaba Municipality in Amathole District in an area that was formerly part of the ...
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Seymour
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three 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 twenty-three
wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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 the
African National Congress
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(ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
{{Municipalities of the Eastern Cape
Local municipalities of the Amatole District Municipality