Sakhisizwe Local Municipality


Sakhisizwe Municipality is a local municipality within the Chris Hani District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Sakhisizwe is an isiXhosa word meaning "we are building the nation".

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Cala Part 123.1011,479
Cala Part 214.20280
Ehlatini89.403,971
Elliot28.6810,965
Engcobo20.851,422
Eqolombeni149.285,833
Masibambane0.444,123
Sidindi12.14182
Xalanga215.0111,546
Remainder of the municipality1,703.504,233

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 the African National Congress won a majority of thirteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.