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Dr AB Xuma
Local municipality
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Location in the Eastern Cape
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Chris Hani
Seat	Ngcobo
Wards	20
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Siyabulela Zangqa (ANC)
• Speaker	Skosana Mbolo (ANC)
• Chief Whip	Nobantu Macingwane (ANC)
Area
• Total	2,484 km (959 sq mi)
Population
• Total	155,513
• Density	63/km (160/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	99.6%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• White	0.1%
First languages (2011)
• Xhosa	94.7%
• English	2.0%
• Other	3.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	EC137

Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality (previously Engcobo Municipality) is a local municipality within the Chris Hani District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Ngcobo is an isiXhosa word for a sweet grass found in the area.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

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 1 November 2021, the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-two seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Menzelwa, Zolile. "Engcobo Local Municipality changes name to Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality". News24. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
5. South African Languages - Place names
6. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
7. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Engcobo". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

External links

• Official website

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• Local municipalities of the Chris Hani District Municipality