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Dr Beyers Naudé
Local municipality
Location of the municipality within the Eastern Cape
Coordinates: 32°14′53″S 24°32′06″E / 32.248°S 24.535°E / -32.248; 24.535
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Sarah Baartman
Seat	Graaff-Reinet
Wards	14
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Ewald Loock (DA)
• Speaker	Laughton Hoffman (CSA)
Area
• Total	28,653 km (11,063 sq mi)
Population
• Total	79,291
• Density	2.8/km (7.2/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	23.6%
• Coloured	66.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	8.7%
First languages (2011)
• Afrikaans	80.3%
• Xhosa	14.8%
• English	3.2%
• Other	1.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	EC101

Dr Beyers Naudé Municipality (Afrikaans: Dr Beyers Naudé Munisipaliteit; Xhosa: uMasipala wase Dr Beyers Naudé) is a local municipality within the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The municipality was established by merging the Camdeboo, Ikwezi and Baviaans local municipalities. The decision to merge the municipalities was taken by the Municipal Demarcation Board in 2015 but only took effect after municipal elections on 3 August 2016. The new municipality is named after the Afrikaner cleric and anti-apartheid activist Beyers Naudé. Its seat is in Graaff-Reinet. The merger was motivated by political interests because the ruling party, the African National Congress, was losing support in the area. One of the municipalities, Baviaans, was already governed by the opposition Democratic Alliance.

Geography and people

The new municipality covers an area of 28,653 square kilometres (11,063 sq mi) at the western end of the Eastern Cape province, from the Sneeuberge in the north to the Baviaanskloof in the south. It is a sparsely populated area, with a population of 79,291 giving a density of only 2.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.3/sq mi).

80.3% of residents of the municipality speak Afrikaans as their home language, while 14.8% speak Xhosa and 3.2% speak English. 66.9% described themselves as "Coloured", 23.6% as "Black African", and 8.7% as "White".

The principal town in the municipal area is Graaff-Reinet, with a population of approximately 35,000. Other towns include Willowmore, Aberdeen, Jansenville, Steytlerville and Klipplaat.

Government and politics

The municipal council consists of 24 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 12 councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in 12 wards, while the remaining 12 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 no party won a majority of seats on the council. On 23 November 2021, a DA-led coalition took control of the municipality.

The following table shows the results of the election.

References

1. "Protest delays inauguration at new ECape municipality". Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
2. ^ Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Camdeboo, Ikwezi, and Baviaans.
3. Mngxitama-Diko, Avuyile (6 June 2016). "EC municipality to be named after Naudé". The Herald. Port Elizabeth. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
4. Reporter. "DA's Ewald Loock elected as mayor of Dr Beyers Naude Municipality". News24. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
5. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Dr Beyers Naudé". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 9 November 2021.

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• Local municipalities of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality