Great Kei Local Municipality

Great Kei
Great Kei
Local municipality
	Seal
	Location in the Eastern Cape
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Amathole
Seat	Qumrha
Wards	7
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Ngenisile Wellington Tekile (ANC)
• Speaker	Ngenisile Wellington Tekile (ANC)
• Chief Whip	Ndileka Kantshashe (ANC)
Area
• Total	1,736 km2 (670 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	38,991
• Density	22/km2 (58/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	91.3%
• Coloured	1.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• White	7.1%
First languages (2011)
• Xhosa	88.8%
• English	7.0%
• Afrikaans	2.7%
• Other	1.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	EC123

Great Kei Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Great Kei) is a local municipality within the Amathole District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The word Kei is of Khoekhoe origin, meaning "sand". The municipality is named after the Great Kei River.^[3]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[4]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population
Chintsa East	21202	3.80	1,317
Chintsa	21201	2.57	423
Cwili	21203	0.51	1,473
Haga Haga	21205	1.20	114
Kei Mouth	21206	3.20	284
Qumrha	21207	5.32	1,267
Kwelerha Point	21209	0.36	96
Kwelerha	21208	50.83	8,941
Mooiplaas	21210	145.07	17,281
Morgans Bay	21211	1.36	453
Ocean View	21212	0.17	67
Qumrha	21213	1.94	5,652
Remainder of the municipality	21204	1,519.30	7,087

The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining six 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 nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.^[5]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	6,227	63.89	7	6,518	67.36	2	9
	Democratic Alliance	1,434	14.71	0	1,807	18.67	3	3
	Economic Freedom Fighters	782	8.02	0	1,031	10.65	1	1
	Independent candidates	1,038	10.65	0				0
	Good	165	1.69	0	170	1.76	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	60	0.62	0	91	0.94	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	40	0.41	0	60	0.62	0	0
Total		9,746	100.00	7	9,677	100.00	6	13

Valid votes		9,746	98.60		9,677	98.29
Invalid/blank votes		138	1.40		168	1.71
Total votes		9,884	100.00		9,845	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		17,935	55.11		17,935	54.89

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ South African Languages - Place names
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Great Kei". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 30 December 2021.