Country South Africa Seat Cofimvaba Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 2,711 km² Black african population 99.4% Native xhosa speakers 95.9% | Province Eastern Cape Wards 21 Municipal code EC135 White population 0.1% Native english speakers 1.5% | |
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District Chris Hani District Municipality | ||
Intsika Yethu Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Intsika Yethu is an isiXhosa name meaning "our pillars".
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Map of Cofimvaba, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-one wards, while the remaining twenty-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 thirty-five seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.