Elundini Local Municipality


Elundini Municipality is a local municipality within the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The name originates from isiXhosa and refers to the Drakensberg Mountains.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Amahlubi676.9817,492Xhosa
Amazizi156.986,934Xhosa
Asentshonalanga90.825,102Xhosa
Bakoena224.7512,458Sotho
Basoto169.858,454Xhosa
Batlokoa720.1832,079Sotho
Hlubi125.924,872Xhosa
JK Bokwe0.281,280Xhosa
Maclear7.244,908Xhosa
Madeira0.23598Xhosa
Mati's0.251,762Xhosa
Matolandile/Zimelelandile98.115,556Xhosa
Mount Fletcher Part 110.709,406Xhosa
Mount Fletcher Part 2108.323,371Xhosa
Ngcele162.308,521Xhosa
Ntokozweni0.131,119Xhosa
Ntywenka Forest0.15159Xhosa
Sonwabile2.144,671Xhosa
Ugie18.213,585Xhosa
Remainder of the municipality2,782.475,279Xhosa

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining seventeen 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 won a majority of twenty-eight seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.