Baviaans Local Municipality

Baviaans
Baviaans
	Local municipality
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	Location in the Eastern Cape; Location in the Eastern Cape
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Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Cacadu
Seat	Willowmore
Wards	4
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Ewald Lock (DA)
Area
• Total	11,668 km2 (4,505 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	17,761
• Density	1.5/km2 (3.9/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	12.0%
• Coloured	80.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• White	7.0%
First languages (2011)
• Afrikaans	91.2%
• Xhosa	5.8%
• English	1.7%
• Other	1.3%
Time zone	SAST (UTC+2)
Municipal code	EC107

Baviaans Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Cacadu District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa.

The municipality is named after the Baviaanskloof. The name is of Dutch origin and means "baboons ravine".^[4]

In the 2009 South African general election the Democratic Alliance won a plurality of 45.77% (2,290 votes), while the African National Congress received only 44.73% (2,238 vote). Other minor parties included COPE with 4.72% (236 votes) and the Independent Democrats with 2.12% (106 votes)^[5]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[6]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population	Most spoken language
Steytlerville	20702	22.03	713	Afrikaans
Vuyolwetho	20703	2.58	2,912	Afrikaans
Willowmore	20704	20.24	6,398	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	20701	7,679.23	5,312	Afrikaans

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 Democratic Alliance (DA) won a majority of four seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.^[7]^[8]