Country South Africa Seat Qumbu Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 2,826 km² Black african population 99.4% Native xhosa speakers 94.9% | District OR Tambo Wards 26 Municipal code EC156 White population 0.2% Native english speakers 2.3% Province Eastern Cape | |
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Mhlontlo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the OR Tambo District of Eastern Cape in South Africa.
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Map of Qumbu, South Africa
Mhlontlo was a chief of the Pondomise people during the 19th century.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of fifty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-six wards, while the remaining twenty-five 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 forty seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.