Country South Africa Seat Lady Grey Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 7,329 km² Black african population 97.3% Native english speakers 1.3% Province Eastern Cape | District Joe Gqabi Wards 19 Municipal code EC142 White population 1.1% Native afrikaans speakers 2.4% Native sotho speakers 20.2% | |
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Senqu Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Joe Gqabi District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Senqu is a Sesotho name for the Orange River.
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Map of Barkly East, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining seventeen 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 twenty-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.