Greater Giyani Local Municipality
| Greater Giyani | ||
|---|---|---|
| Local municipality | ||
|
||
| Location in Limpopo Location in Limpopo |
||
| Country | South Africa | |
| Province | Limpopo | |
| District | Mopani | |
| Seat | Giyani | |
| Wards | 30 | |
| Government[1] | ||
| • Type | Municipal council | |
| • Mayor | Ngenisile Tekile | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 4,172 km2 (1,611 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011)[2] | ||
| • Total | 244,217 | |
| • Density | 59/km2 (150/sq mi) | |
| Racial makeup (2011)[2] | ||
| • Black African | 99.5% | |
| • Coloured | 0.1% | |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.3% | |
| • White | 0.1% | |
| First languages (2011)[3] | ||
| • Tsonga | 90.8% | |
| • Northern Sotho | 3.8% | |
| • Sotho | 2.6% | |
| • Other | 2.8% | |
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) | |
| Municipal code | LIM331 | |
Greater Giyani Local Municipality is located in the Mopani District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. The seat of Greater Giyani Local Municipality is Giyani.
Contents
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]
| Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giyani Part 2 | 90111 | 21.53 | 32,673 | Tsonga |
| Giyani Part 3 | 90112 | 0.24 | 415 | Tsonga |
| Hlaneki | 90102 | 365.04 | 23,402 | Tsonga |
| Mabunda | 90103 | 1.63 | 3,861 | Tsonga |
| Makhuva | 90104 | 131.90 | 3,615 | Tsonga |
| Modjadji | 90105 | 4.03 | 4,373 | Tsonga |
| Msengi | 90106 | 87.74 | 8,279 | Tsonga |
| Ndengeza | 90107 | 82.98 | 10,751 | Tsonga |
| Nkuri | 90108 | 5.35 | 7,052 | Tsonga |
| Nkomo | 90109 | 3.92 | 4,029 | Tsonga |
| Shiviti | 90110 | 815.97 | 39,610 | Tsonga |
| Remainder of the municipality (Giyani Part 1) | 90101 | 1,444.47 | 99,343 | Tsonga |
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 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifty seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[5][6]
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
| African National Congress | 47,462 | 50,543 | 98,005 | 81.0 | 27 | 23 | 50 | |
| Independent | 7,304 | – | 7,304 | 6.0 | 3 | – | 3 | |
| Ximoko Party | 1,145 | 4,561 | 5,706 | 4.7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Democratic Alliance | 1,508 | 1,853 | 3,361 | 2.8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| United Democratic Movement | 382 | 1,552 | 1,934 | 1.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Congress of the People | 1,650 | – | 1,650 | 1.4 | 0 | - | 0 | |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 675 | 762 | 1,437 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| African People's Convention | 196 | 529 | 725 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| African Democratic Change | 326 | 300 | 626 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Freedom Party | 24 | 270 | 294 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 60,672 | 60,370 | 121,042 | 100.0 | 30 | 30 | 60 | |
| Spoilt votes | 849 | 1,288 | 2,137 | |||||
South African general election, 2014
Results of the National Assembly election of 2014 for Greater Giyani Local Municipality:[7]
- ANC 89.2%
- EFF 5.3%
- DA 3.2%
- ACDP 0.5%
- COPE 0.4%
- AIC 0.4%
- APC 0.3%
- UDM 0.1%
- AGANG SA 0.1%
- PAC 0.1%
- FF+ 0.1%
- IFP 0.1%
- UCDP 0.0%
- AZAPO 0.0%
- WASP 0.0%
- NFP 0.0%
- UBUNTU 0.0%
- PA 0.0%
- BRA 0.0%
- KISS 0.0%
- PAM 0.0%
- ICOSA 0.0%
- FN 0.0%
- MF 0.0%
- UNICO 0.0%
- FINLA 0.0%
- PAL 0.0%
- KGM 0.0%
- Al Jama-ah 0.0%
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ [1]
External links
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
| District and local |
|
.svg) |
||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
