Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 2,577 km² Black african population 99.4% Native xhosa speakers 93.1% | District Alfred Nzo Wards 27 Municipal code EC442 White population 0.1% Native english speakers 2.6% | |
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Umzimvubu Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Alfred Nzo District of Eastern Cape in South Africa.
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Map of Mount Ayliff, South Africa
Umzimvubu, the name of the Mzimvubu River is an isiXhosa name which means "home of the hippopotamus".
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of fifty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-seven wards, while the remaining twenty-six 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-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.