Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality

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Fetakgomo Tubatse
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Local municipality
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Map of Limpopo with Fetakgomo/Tubatse highlighted
Country South Africa
Province Limpopo
District Greater Sekhukhune
Seat Burgersfort
Government
 • Type Municipal council
Area
[1]
 • Total5,693 km2 (2,198 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
 • Total429,471
 • Density75/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeLIM476

Fetakgomo Tubatse Municipality (Northern Sotho : Mmasepala wa Fetakgomo Tubatse) [2] is a local municipality within the Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by merging the Fetakgomo and Greater Tubatse local municipalities. [3]

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Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine wards, while the remaining thirty-eight 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 3 August 2016, the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifty-four seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. [4] [5]

PartyVotesSeats
WardListTotal %WardListTotal
ANC 64,76167,703132,46468.2391554
EFF 17,04618,43335,47918.301515
DA 4,4774,4798,9564.6044
Independent 5,611–5,6112.90–0
AZAPO 1,0771,0822,1591.1011
COPE 9378851,8220.9011
Socialist Agenda of Dispossessed Africans8549051,7590.9011
PAC 8817671,6480.9011
Others1,7002,6174,3172.2000
Total97,34496,871194,215100.0393877
Spoilt votes1,7602,0793,839

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References

  1. 1 2 Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Fetakgomo, Greater Tubatse.
  2. ↑ Ndou, Jerry (10 November 2017). "Notice in terms of section 16(3) of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998 (Act 117 of 1998): official names of LIM 345, LIM 368 and LIM 476 local municipalities" (PDF). Limpopo Provincial Gazette. Vol. 24, no. 2864. Polokwane: Government Printer. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  3. ↑ "The Local Government Handbook" . Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Greater Tubatse/Fetakgomo" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "Seat Calculation Detail: Greater Tubatse/Fetakgomo" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 January 2017.

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