Country South Africa Seat Tarkastad Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 6,087 km² Black african population 91% Native english speakers 2.3% | Province Eastern Cape Wards 5 Municipal code EC132 White population 2.8% Native afrikaans speakers 8.5% Native sotho speakers 2.8% | |
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District Chris Hani District Municipality | ||
Tsolwana Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Tsolwana is an isiXhosa name which means "something with a sharp ending or a tip", referring the mountains around the whole area. After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality.
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Map of Tarkastad, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consisted of ten members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Five councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in five wards, while the remaining five 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 seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.