Ubuntu Local Municipality is a local municipality in the

Pixley ka Seme District Municipality Pixley ka Seme is one of the five districts of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Pixley ka Seme is De Aar. The majority (77%) of its 186,351 people speak Afrikaans as first language (2011 Census). The district code is DC7. ...

of the

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province of

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. Its seat is

Victoria West Victoria West is a town in the central Karoo region of South Africa's Northern Cape province. It is situated on the main N12 route, at an elevation of . It is the seat of the Ubuntu Local Municipality within the Pixley ka Seme District Municipal ...

; other towns in the municipality are

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, Loxton and two small railway villages Hutchinson and Merriman.

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Criticism

The Ubuntu Municipality has been criticised for illegal traffic fines and harassing motorists.

Politics

The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by

mixed-member proportional representation Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...

. Six 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 their ...

in six

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, while the remaining five are chosen from

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s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the

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(ANC) won a majority of seven seats. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

References

External links

* http://www.ubuntu.gov.za/ Local municipalities of the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality {{NorthernCape-geo-stub