Ntabankulu Local Municipality


Ntabankulu Municipality is a Local [municipality (South Africa)|local municipality] within the Alfred Nzo District Municipality, in the Wild [Coast Region, Eastern Cape|Wild Coast Region] of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Ntabankulu is an isiXhosa word meaning "great or big mountain", since the municipal area is mountainous in character.
It was formerly part of the OR [Tambo District Municipality], but was transferred to the Alfred Nzo District Municipality after the 2011 [South African municipal election|2011 municipal election].

Main places

The South [African National Census of 2011|2011 census] for the Ntabankulu Municipality states a population of 123,976 with these most populated main places
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
3.842,431Xhosa
8.433,969Xhosa
11.523,983Xhosa
12.482,957Xhosa
7.414,427Xhosa
8.863,104Xhosa
4.502,793Xhosa
Tabankulu19.513,266Xhosa
1,384.96123,976Xhosa

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 thirty-one seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.