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Elundini
Local municipality
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Location in the Eastern Cape
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Joe Gqabi
Seat	Maclear
Wards	17
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Nonkongozelo Ruth Lengs (ANC)
• Speaker	Vangiwe Victoria Hokwana (ANC)
• Chief Whip	Mamello Semakaleng Leteba (ANC)
Area
• Total	5,065 km (1,956 sq mi)
Population
• Total	138,141
• Density	27/km (71/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	98.1%
• Coloured	1.0%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• White	0.7%
First languages (2011)
• Xhosa	70.1%
• Sotho	24.8%
• Afrikaans	1.7%
• English	1.6%
• Other	1.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	EC141

Elundini Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Elundini; Sotho: Masepala wa Elundini) is a local municipality within the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The name originates from isiZulu and refers to the Drakensberg Mountains.

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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of twenty-eight 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. South African Languages - Place names
5. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
6. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Elundini". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 9 November 2021.

External links

• http://www.elundini.org.za/ Archived 16 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine

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