Thaba Chweu Local Municipality

Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, is a municipality of South Africa, located in the Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga.

Thaba Chweu Municipality - Graskop Administration Unit

Thaba Chweu
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Mpumalanga
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
District	Ehlanzeni
Seat	Lydenburg
Wards	14
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
Area
• Total	5,719 km^2 (2,208 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	98,387
• Density	17/km^2 (45/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	81.6%
• Coloured	2.6%
• Indian/Asian	0.6%
• White	14.5%
First languages (2011) [3]
• Northern Sotho	36.2%
• Swazi	17.8%
• Afrikaans	15.2%
• Zulu	7.7%
• Other	23.1%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	MP321

Main places

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

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	Population	Most spoken language
Graskop	81401	1.57	2,326	Afrikaans
Lydenburg	81402	26.12	6,858	Afrikaans
Mashishing	81403	4.19	16,185	Northern Sotho
Pilgrim's Rest	81404	15.28	16,251	Northern Sotho
Sabie	81405	78.81	5,674	Afrikaans
Simile	81406	0.94	6,265	Swazi
Remainder of the municipality	81407	5,553.77	27,679	Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 seventeen seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.[5][6]

Party		Votes				Seats
		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
	ANC	16,722	17,000	33,722	62.0	11	6	17
	Democratic Alliance	6,556	6,606	13,162	24.2	3	4	7
	Economic Freedom Fighters	1,963	2,016	3,979	7.3	0	2	2
	Bushbuckridge Residents Association	459	763	1,222	2.3	0	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	463	487	950	1.8	0	0	0
	Independent	515	–	515	1.0	0	–	0
	African People's Convention	143	132	275	0.5	0	0	0
	Pan Africanist Congress	103	97	200	0.4	0	0	0
	Congress of the People	99	72	171	0.3	0	0	0
	ACDP	71	94	165	0.3	0	0	0
Total		27,094	27,267	54,361	100.0	14	13	27
Spoilt votes		613	425	1,038

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. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
5. "Results Summary – All Ballots: Thaba Chweu" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
6. "Seat Calculation Detail: Thaba Chweu" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 March 2017.

External links

• Thaba Chweu Government site