Country South Africa Seat Groblershoop Municipal code NC084 White population 5.4% Native afrikaans speakers 94.5% Wards 4 | Province Northern Cape Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 11,107 km² Black african population 6.9% Mayor Paul Vries | |
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District ZF Mgcawu District Municipality | ||
ǃKheis is an administrative area in the ZF Mgcawu District of Northern Cape in South Africa. ǃKheis is a Khoi name meaning "a place where you live, or a home". The municipality is named in recognition of the Khoi people who were the first permanent dwellers of the area.
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Map of Groblershoop, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in four wards, while the remaining three 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 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of four seats on the council.
The opposition took control of the council in April 2013, after ANC lost a by-election to an independent candidate. The independent, former ANC member Paul Vries, became the new mayor of the municipality supported by the Congress of the People and the Democratic Alliance.
The following table shows the results of the election.