Nkonkobe Local Municipality


Nkonkobe Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Amatole District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The municipality is named after the Winterberg mountain range, Nkonkobe in isiXhosa. The seat, as well as most offices, of the Municipality are in Fort Beaufort, but the Council's chambers in Alice are generally used for council meetings, being better equipped. Other towns served by the municipality are Seymour, Balfour, Hogsback and Middledrift. After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Alice21.978,009
Amagqunukwebe576.5735,694
Amagwala57.03854
Amajingqi161.5711,441
Amakhuze30.492,525
Balfour4.822,428
Bellvale2.00468
Bhofolo2.5412,098
Blinkwater5.171,041
Ekuphumuleni1.79436
Fort Beaufort46.1910,093
Gaga75.067,956
Gaika-Mbo69.152,796
Hogsback6.78648
Imingcangathelo24.564,849
Jingqi0.44190
Mhlangeni1.49116
Middledrift2.12665
Mlungisi1.23307
Moreson1.4884
Mpofu704.063,665
Ngqika18.991,580
Ngwalana32.971,922
Seymour2.211,552
Tamboekie Vlei1.18344
Tyhume116.928,238
Victoria East318.905,941
Remainder of the municipality1,437.772,727

Politics

The municipal council consisted of forty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-one councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-one wards, while the remaining twenty were chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 the African National Congress won a majority of thirty-five seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.