Nama Khoi Local Municipality

Nama Khoi Municipality is a local municipality within the Namakwa District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Its seat is Springbok.

WWW namakhoi.gov.za

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventeen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining eight 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 on the council. The Democratic Alliance and the Namakwa Civic Movement formed a coalition to govern the municipality,