Amathole District Municipality

The Amathole District Municipality is one of the 7 districts of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat is East London. As of 2011, over 90% of its 892,637 inhabitants spoke isiXhosa. The district code is DC12. Amathole means "calves", the name of the mountain range and forest which form the northern boundary of the district.

Government

The Executive Mayor of Amathole District Municipality since 2016 is Anele Ntsangani, and the Municipal Manager is .

Amathole is surrounded by:

The district contains the following local municipalities:

Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality, following amalgamation of Nxuba and Nkonkobe ] municipalities.

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

Election results for Amathole in the South African general election, 2004.

Party	Votes	%
African National Congress	523,630	82.99%
United Democratic Movement	50,559	8.01%
Democratic Alliance	32,467	5.15%
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	7,627	1.21%
African Christian Democratic Party	4,492	0.71%
Independent Democrats	3,680	0.58%
New National Party	2,600	0.41%
Freedom Front Plus	795	0.13%
Inkhata Freedom Party	785	0.12%
Azanian People's Organisation	765	0.12%
SOPA	740	0.12%
United Christian Democratic Party	625	0.10%
EMSA	407	0.06%
Peace and Justice Congress	400	0.06%
UF	293	0.05%
National Alliance	269	0.04%
Christian Democratic Party	257	0.04%
TOP	236	0.04%
Keep It Straight and Simple Party	132	0.02%
New Labour Party	109	0.02%
Minority Front	85	0.01%
Total	630,953	100.00%

As of January 2024, the municipality is under administration, one of 32 in the country, and three in the Eastern Cape where the provincial executive has intervened due to maladministration