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Umzimvubu
Local municipality
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Location in the Eastern Cape
Coordinates: 32°10′S 28°35′E / 32.167°S 28.583°E / -32.167; 28.583
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Alfred Nzo
Seat	Mount Frere
Wards	27
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Sobane Mnukwa (ANC)
• Speaker	Nofikile Florida Ngonyolo (ANC)
• Chief Whip	Ndanele Mzinwa (ANC)
Area
• Total	2,577 km (995 sq mi)
Population
• Total	191,620
• Density	74/km (190/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	99.4%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• White	0.1%
First languages (2011)
• Xhosa	93.1%
• English	2.6%
• Other	4.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	EC442

Umzimvubu Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Umzimvubu) is a local municipality within the Alfred Nzo District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Umzimvubu, the name of the Mzimvubu River, is an isiXhosa word meaning "home of the hippopotamus". The municipal area comprises an area of 2506 square kilometres. The municipality has undergone a number of amendments in terms of municipal and ward demarcation which has a profound impact on planning in the area.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of fifty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-eight councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-eight wards, while the remaining twenty-seven 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 forty-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. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
4. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Umzimvubu". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

External links

• http://www.umzimvubu.gov.za

v t e Municipalities of the Eastern Cape
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List of municipalities in the Eastern Cape

• Local municipalities of the Alfred Nzo District Municipality