Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality

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Lepelle-Nkumpi
Local municipality
Lepelle-Nkumpi CoA.png
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Map of Limpopo with Lepelle-Nkumpi highlighted.svg
Location in Limpopo
Coordinates: 24°15′S29°40′E / 24.250°S 29.667°E / -24.250; 29.667
Country South Africa
Province Limpopo
District Capricorn
Seat Lebowakgomo
Wards 30
Government
[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • MayorMeriam Molala
Area
 • Total3,463 km2 (1,337 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total230,350
 • Density67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 •  Black African 99.6%
 •  Coloured 0.1%
 •  Indian/Asian 0.1%
 •  White 0.1%
First languages (2011)
[2]
 •  Northern Sotho 86.9%
 •  Southern Ndebele 4.6%
 •  Tsonga 3.8%
 • Other4.7%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeLIM355

Lepelle-Nkumpi Municipality (Northern Sotho : Mmasepala wa Lepelle-Nkumpi) is a local municipality within the Capricorn District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Lebowakgomo.

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Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: [3]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Bakgaga Ba Mphahlele 91301 591.1671,646 Northern Sotho
Batau Ba Seloane 91302 96.246,457Northern Sotho
Ditlou Ntshong 91303 85.165,334Northern Sotho
Lebowakgomo 91304 183.4626,190Northern Sotho
Mafefe 91306 364.6711,312Northern Soth
Mathabatha 91307 0.34444Northern Sotho
Mokerong 91308 0.791,573Northern Sotho
Ndlovu 91309 1.671,878 Southern Ndebele
Thabamoopo 91310 239.516,438Northern Sotho
Zebediela Part 1 91311 502.1595,107Northern Sotho
Zebediela Part 2 91312 1.41179Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality 91305 1,388.221,402Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty wards, while the remaining thirty 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. [4]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
African National Congress 28,29261.413029,87165.951040
Economic Freedom Fighters 8,02517.4208,78119.391212
Defenders of the People 2,7896.0502,9036.4144
Independent candidates 3,9318.5300
Democratic Alliance 1,2842.7901,3873.0622
Magoshi Swaranang Movement 3990.8704761.0511
Lebowakgomo Civic Organization 2640.5704360.9611
8 other parties1,0902.3701,4423.1800
Total46,074100.003045,296100.003060
Valid votes46,07498.0245,29696.90
Invalid/blank votes9301.981,4473.10
Total votes47,004100.0046,743100.00
Registered voters/turnout108,73843.23108,73842.99

Corruption

In late 2023, Thabo Ben Mothogoane, the municipality's former municipal manager, and Rosina Mangaka Ngoveni, the former chief financial officer, were arrested in connection with the fraud at VBS Bank [5]


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Nakedi Sibanda-Kekana is a South African politician who is currently serving as Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Sports, Arts and Culture in the Limpopo provincial government. She was appointed to that position in October 2022, shortly after she was elected Provincial Treasurer of the Limpopo branch of her political party, the African National Congress (ANC). She was first elected as a Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature in the 2019 general election and before that was Mayor of Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality from August 2016 until December 2018, when the ANC asked her to resign during the corruption scandal at VBS Mutual Bank.

References

  1. ↑ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  4. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Lepelle-Nkumpi". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  5. ↑ Ledwaba, Neesa Moodley, Vincent Cruywagen and Lucas (2024-02-03). "The VBS scandal six years on - the R2bn fraud, the R500m settlement and the plight of victims". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 2024-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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