Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 1,291 km² Black african population 99.3% Native xhosa speakers 95% | Wards 20 Municipal code EC154 White population 0.2% Native english speakers 2.7% | |
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Port St. Johns Local Municipality is an administrative area in the OR Tambo District of Eastern Cape in South Africa.
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Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Main languages
The 2001 census recorded the following first languages: 98.69% IsiXhosa; 0.64% English; 0.20% Afrikaans; 0.13% IsiZulu; 0.12% SiSwati; 0.08% IsiNdebele; 0.06% Sesotho; and 0.08% other languages.
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining nineteen 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-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.