Ndlambe Local Municipality


Ndlambe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa, with its capital at Port Alfred. It is a predominantly rural area with agriculture and tourism dominating the economy.
It encompasses the following towns:
The municipal council consists of twenty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Ten councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in ten wards, while the remaining ten 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 won a majority of thirteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Alexandria3.843,087Afrikaans
Bathurst8.45600English
Boknesstrand1.09216Afrikaans
Cannon Rocks1.79209English
Ekuphumleni1.103,619Xhosa
Kasuka1.1796Xhosa
Kenton-on-Sea7.455,266Xhosa
Kleinemonde5.7418Xhosa
Kwanonqubela0.814,626Xhosa
Nkwenkwezi3.3514,673Xhosa
Nolukhanyo1.224,961Xhosa
Port Alfred19.026,287English
Remainder of the municipality1,945.7911,833Xhosa