Victor Khanye Local Municipality

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Victor Khanye
Local municipality
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Map of Mpumalanga with Delmas highlighted.svg
Location in Mpumalanga
Coordinates: 26°10′S28°45′E / 26.167°S 28.750°E / -26.167; 28.750
Country South Africa
Province Mpumalanga
District Nkangala
Seat Delmas
Wards 9
Government
[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • MayorVusi Buda
Area
 • Total1,568 km2 (605 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [2]
 • Total75,452
 • Density48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[2]
 •  Black African 82.3%
 •  Coloured 1.1%
 •  Indian/Asian 0.3%
 •  White 16.0%
First languages (2011)
[2]
 •  Zulu 36.0%
 •  Southern Ndebele 25.4%
 •  Afrikaans 15.9%
 •  Sotho 3.9%
 • Other18.8%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeMP311

Victor Khanye Municipality (Zulu : UMasipala iVictor Khanye; Southern Ndebele : UMasipaladi weVictor Khanye; Afrikaans : Victor Khanye Munisipaliteit), formerly Delmas Municipality, is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat is Delmas. The local municipality was one of the four to have passed the 2009-10 audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa, who deemed it to have a clean administration. [3]

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Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: [4]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Botleng 80801 5.0930,793 Zulu
Delmas 80805 13.413,496 Afrikaans
Eloff 80803 11.151,391Afrikaans
Sundra 80804 71.383,252Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality 80802 1,466.2117,275 Southern Ndebele

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventeen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of nine seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election. [5]

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
African National Congress 8,99751.2889,43753.3219
African Voice Progressive Party 3,26818.6303,26418.4433
Democratic Alliance 2,82316.0912,81415.9023
Economic Freedom Fighters 1,0636.0601,1306.3811
Freedom Front Plus 7544.3007444.2011
Independent candidates 3962.2600
2 other parties2431.3903101.7500
Total17,544100.00917,699100.00817
Valid votes17,54498.2117,69998.31
Invalid/blank votes3191.793041.69
Total votes17,863100.0018,003100.00
Registered voters/turnout34,54851.7034,54852.11

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The Victor Khanye Local Municipality is a Local Municipality in Mpumalanga in South Africa. The council consists of seventeen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of nine seats.

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. ↑ "Auditor-General urges South Africa's mayors to lead the drive towards clean administration by 2014". Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  4. ↑ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa [ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Victor Khanye". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
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