Midvaal Local Municipality

Midvaal Local Municipality is an administrative area within the Sedibeng District Municipality of Gauteng in South Africa. The municipality's name references its geographical location halfway between Johannesburg and East Rand and the Vaal and Vereeniging areas.[4]

Midvaal
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Gauteng
Coordinates: 26°35′S 28°05′E
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceGauteng
DistrictSedibeng
SeatMeyerton
Wards15
Government
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorBongani Baloyi (DA)
Area
 • Total1,722 km2 (665 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total95,301
 • Density55/km2 (140/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African58.4%
 • Coloured1.6%
 • Indian/Asian0.8%
 • White38.7%
First languages (2011)
 • Afrikaans30.9%
 • Sotho27.9%
 • English14.0%
 • Zulu11.8%
 • Other15.4%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeGT422

Midvaal Local Municipality [5] led by Executive Mayor Cllr. Bongani Baloyi has been coined the fastest growing municipality in Gauteng due to its rapid economic growth. Midvaal has undergone a radical change from quaint country area to booming tourist, recreational and industrial centre in Southern Gauteng. Midvaal has grown from 60 000 residents in 2001 to 100 000 today. A report by Gauteng’s Provincial Government ranked Midvaal as the province's top municipality in terms of quality of life.[6] In December 2010 Midvaal was ranked 23rd out of 231 municipalities.[7] This shows that Midvaal is within the top 10% of high scoring local municipalities in South Africa.

Midvaal’s name has become more prominent with the establishment of the Oprah Winfrey School located in the area. In addition to this one of golf's most successful and recognisable stars Greg Norman coined “the Great White Shark” invested huge amounts of money into the Eye of Africa Golfing Estate development for which he designed the golf course. The municipality’s major achievement has been attracting Sedibeng Breweries, South Africa’s distributors of Heineken into the area. The brewery has set up its national offices along Midvaal R59 freeway/ corridor and has brought with it new opportunities for job creation and small businesses.

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen 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 Democratic Alliance (DA) won a majority of seventeen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[8][9]

PartyVotesSeats
WardListTotal%WardListTotal
Democratic Alliance 21,34621,42642,77259.711617
African National Congress 11,48711,49722,98432.1459
Economic Freedom Fighters 1,7311,7063,4374.8022
Freedom Front Plus 1,0881,0532,1413.0011
Congress of the People 1591503090.4000
Total 35,811 35,83271,643100.0151429
Spoilt votes 286278564

Demographics
Group 2001 Census % 2011 Census % Change % Change
Black African 38,168 59.05% 55,643 58.39% 17,475 0.66%
White 25,295 39.13% 36,869 38.69% 11,574 0.44%
Coloured 888 1.37% 1,558 1.63% 670 0.26%
Indian or Asian 291 0.45% 750 0.79% 459 0.34%
Other No Data – 480 0.50% n/a n/a
Total population 64,642 100.00% 95,301 100.00% 30,659 47.4%

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[10]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Evaton705021.393,406Sotho
Meyerton70503114.2824,215Afrikaans
Randvaal7050574.147,933English
Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve70506113.790-
Vaal Marina705072.609Sotho
Walkerville70509151.549,662English
Remainder of the municipality705041,218.4412,723Sotho

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. Jako Olivier. "South African Languages - Place names". Salanguages.com. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  5. "Government". Midvaal. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  6. http://www.polity.org.za/article/da-joint-statement-by-janet-semple-tim-nast-and-marti-wenger-da-gauteng-leader-da-mayor-of-midvaal-and-shadow-minister-of-cooperative-governance-and-traditional-affairs-on-the-midvaal-municipality-27052010-2010-05-27
  7. "Municipal Data and Intelligence". Municipal IQ. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  8. "Results Summary – All Ballots: Midvaal" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  9. "Seat Calculation Detail: Midvaal" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  10. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
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