Blue Crane Route Local Municipality
Blue Crane Route Local Municipality (Afrikaans: Bloukraanroete Plaaslike Munisipaliteit) is an administrative area in the Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa.
Blue Crane Route
Bloukraanroete | |
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 Seal | |
.svg.png.webp) Location in the Eastern Cape | |
| Coordinates: 32°43′S 25°35′E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Eastern Cape |
| District | Sarah Baartman |
| Seat | Somerset East |
| Wards | 6 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Bonisile Manxoweni (ANC) |
| • Speaker | Bonisile Manxoweni (ANC) [n 1] |
| • Chief Whip | Neliswa Nkonyeni (ANC) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11,068 km2 (4,273 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[2] | |
| • Total | 36,002 |
| • Density | 3.3/km2 (8.4/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 59.0% |
| • Coloured | 33.0% |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.3% |
| • White | 6.8% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Xhosa | 51.3% |
| • Afrikaans | 43.2% |
| • English | 3.4% |
| • Other | 2.1% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Municipal code | EC102 |
The municipality is named after the South African national bird, the blue crane.[4]
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]
| Place | Code | Population | Most spoken language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bongweni | 20202 | 3,776 | Xhosa |
| Cookhouse | 20203 | 1,415 | Afrikaans |
| Khayanisho | 20204 | 1,448 | Xhosa |
| KwaNojoli | 20205 | 8,132 | Xhosa |
| Pearston | 20206 | 2,596 | Afrikaans |
| Petersburg | 29103 | 39 | Afrikaans |
| Somerset East | 20207 | 8,456 | Afrikaans |
| Remainder of the municipality | 20201 | 9,196 | Xhosa |
Politics
The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in six wards, while the remaining five 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[6][7]
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
| ANC | 6,770 | 6,447 | 13,217 | 60.4 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| Democratic Alliance | 4,028 | 4,188 | 8,216 | 37.6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Economic Freedom Fighters | 221 | 217 | 438 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 11,019 | 10,852 | 21,871 | 100.0 | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
| Spoilt votes | 153 | 140 | 293 | |||||
Footnotes
- Manxoweni serves as the Mayor, Speaker and Chairperson of the Finance Committee.
References
- "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- South African Languages - Place names
- Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- "Results Summary – All Ballots: Blue Crane Route" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- "Seat Calculation Detail: Blue Crane Route" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
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