Camdeboo Local Municipality was a local municipality in the

Sarah Baartman District Municipality Sarah Baartman District Municipality (formerly Cacadu District Municipality) is situated in the western part of the Eastern Cape province, covering an area of 58 242 square kilometres. The area of the district municipality includes seven local m ...

of the Eastern Cape in

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. After

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on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger

Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality is a new local municipality that was established by merging the Camdeboo, Ikwezi and Baviaans local municipalities in the Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The decision to merge ...

. The name Camdeboo (or Qamdobowa in Xhosa language) has evolved from a phonetically similar

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word meaning "green hollow".

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consisted of fourteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors were elected by

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in seven

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, while the remaining seven were chosen from

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s so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 the

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(ANC) won a majority of eight seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
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