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Lukhanji Local Municipality

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Country
  
South Africa

Seat
  
Queenstown

Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+2)

Area
  
3,813 km²

Black african population
  
92.6%

Native english speakers
  
4.5%

Province
  
Eastern Cape

District
  
Chris Hani

Wards
  
27

Municipal code
  
EC134

White population
  
2.7%

Native afrikaans speakers
  
5.5%

Native xhosa speakers
  
86.8%


Lukhanji Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Lukhanji is a Xhosa name for the mountain that runs from the eastern side of Queenstown to the western side. After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality.

Contents

Map of Queenstown, South Africa

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places
(Note: only places with more than 1,000 inhibitants listed here):

Politics

The municipal council consisted of fifty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-seven councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-seven wards, while the remaining twenty-seven were chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty-five seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

Lukhanji Local Municipality Wikipedia