Country South Africa Seat Cradock Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 11,663 km² Black african population 56.2% Native english speakers 3.1% | Province Eastern Cape Wards 9 Municipal code EC131 White population 10.5% Native afrikaans speakers 44.6% | |
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District Chris Hani District Municipality Points of interest Great Fish River Museum, Schreiner House, Olive Schreiner House, Commando Drift Nature Reserve, Bergplaas Nature Reserve | ||
Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality, formerly known as Cradock Local Municipality, is a local municipality in Chris Hani District Municipality, Eastern Cape. The seat is Cradock.
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Map of Cradock, South Africa
Politics
The municipal council consists of eighteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining nine 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 eleven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
References
Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA