Country South Africa Seat Cala Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 2,355 km² Black african population 97.7% Native english speakers 2.7% Province Eastern Cape | District Chris Hani Wards 9 Municipal code EC138 White population 1.1% Native afrikaans speakers 1.8% Native xhosa speakers 92.2% | |
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Sakhisizwe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Sakhisizwe is an isiXhosa name meaning "we are building the nation".
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Map of Elliot, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of seventeen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining eight 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 fourteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.