All 213 of the 257 municipalities will have until Tuesday next week to convene a full council meeting to elect an executive mayor and speaker.
The November 23 deadline comes about after the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) on November 9 gazetted the names and final allocation of seats of the 9 473 councillors who won seats in the municipal elections held on November 1. The 213 municipal councils across the country have 14 days in which to hold their first meetings.
Municipal managers bear responsibility for convening these first council meetings.
In the first meeting of local councils, the commission will be conducting elections for the councillors who will be representing those local councils on district councils.
Of the 9 473 councillors in the country, the youngest, aged 20, was elected in the municipal council of Merafong in Gauteng, while the oldest, at 83, was elected in KwaZulu-Natal in the municipality of Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
There were 5 975 male councillors (63%) and 3 498 female councillors (37%) elected. Of the male councillors elected, 2 712 came from proportional representation (PR) lists, 3 214 from wards and a further 49 were independents who had contested wards.
Of the female councillors elected, 2 294 were elected from PR lists, 1 202 from wards and two were independents who had contested wards.
Source: IOL
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