The municipal council consists of fifty-three members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-seven councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in twenty-seven
wards, while the remaining twenty-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 18 May 2011 the
African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-four seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. ==References==