Victor Khanye Local Municipality

Victor Khanye
Local municipality
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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
• Mayor	Vusi Buda
Area
• Total	1,568 km2 (605 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [2]
• Total	75,452
• Density	48/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%
• Other	18.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	MP311

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] The Victor Khanye Local Municipality is named after Victor Khanye, an ANC activist in the anti-apartheid campaign.

Main places

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

Place	Code	Area (km2)	Population	Most spoken language
Botleng	80801	5.09	30,793	Zulu
Delmas	80805	13.41	3,496	Afrikaans
Eloff	80803	11.15	1,391	Afrikaans
Sundra	80804	71.38	3,252	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	80802	1,466.21	17,275	Southern Ndebele

Politics

Main article: Victor Khanye Local Municipality elections

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]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	8,997	51.28	8	9,437	53.32	1	9
	African Voice Progressive Party	3,268	18.63	0	3,264	18.44	3	3
	Democratic Alliance	2,823	16.09	1	2,814	15.90	2	3
	Economic Freedom Fighters	1,063	6.06	0	1,130	6.38	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	754	4.30	0	744	4.20	1	1
	Independent candidates	396	2.26	0				0
	2 other parties	243	1.39	0	310	1.75	0	0
Total		17,544	100.00	9	17,699	100.00	8	17
Valid votes		17,544	98.21		17,699	98.31
Invalid/blank votes		319	1.79		304	1.69
Total votes		17,863	100.00		18,003	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		34,548	51.70		34,548	52.11

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "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.

External links

• Official homepage