ǃKheis Local Municipality

ǃKheis is an administrative area in the ZF Mgcawu District of Northern Cape in South Africa. ǃKheis is a Khoi name meaning "a place where you live, or a home". The municipality is named in recognition of the Khoi people who were the first permanent dwellers of the area.[4]

Contents 1 Main places 2 Politics 3 References 4 External links

Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]

Place

Code

Area (km2)

Population

Boegoeberg 31802 0.37 1,587 Gannaput 31803 0.37 965 Groblershoop 31804 1.26 437 Grootdrink 31805 0.46 2,177 Stutterheim 31806 0.80 3,043 Wegdraai 31807 0.77 1,559 Remainder of the municipality 31801 5,518.68 6,274

Politics
The municipal council consists of seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in four wards, while the remaining three 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 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of four seats on the council.

The opposition took control of the council in April 2013, after ANC lost a by-election to an independent candidate. The independent, former ANC member Paul Vries, became the new mayor of the municipality supported by the Congress of the People and the Democratic Alliance.[6]

The following table shows the results of the election.[7][8]

Party

Votes

Seats

Ward

List

Total

%

Ward

List

Total

African National Congress 3,502 3,535 7,037 57.4 4 0 4 Congress of the People 1,454 1,454 2,908 23.7 0 2 2 Democratic Alliance 1,067 1,051 2,118 17.3 0 1 1 Freedom Front Plus 70 47 117 1.0 0 0 0 African Christian Democratic Party 36 44 80 0.7 0 0 0 Total 6,129 6,131 12,260 100.0 4 3 7 Spoilt votes 57 61 118