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Ingquza Hill Local Municipality

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Country
  
South Africa

Seat
  
Flagstaff

Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+2)

Area
  
2,477 km²

Black african population
  
99.2%

Native xhosa speakers
  
94.6%

District
  
OR Tambo

Wards
  
31

Municipal code
  
EC153

White population
  
0.1%

Native english speakers
  
2.2%

Province
  
Eastern Cape

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Ingquza Hill Local Municipality, previously known as Qaukeni, is an administrative area in the OR Tambo District of Eastern Cape in South Africa.

Contents

Map of Flagstaff, South Africa

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-one 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifty-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

Ingquza Hill Local Municipality Wikipedia