Victor Khanye Local Municipality

Victor Khanye Local Municipality (formerly Delmas Local Municipality) is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The seat of Delmas Local Municipality 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.[4]

Victor Khanye
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Mpumalanga
Coordinates: 26°10′S 28°45′E
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceMpumalanga
DistrictNkangala
SeatDelmas
Wards9
Government
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorEvah Makhabane
Area
 • Total1,568 km2 (605 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[2]
 • Total75,452
 • Density48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
 • Black African82.3%
 • Coloured1.1%
 • Indian/Asian0.3%
 • White16.0%
First languages (2011)
 • Zulu36.0%
 • Southern Ndebele25.4%
 • Afrikaans15.9%
 • Sotho3.9%
 • Other18.8%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeMP311

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5]

PlaceCodeArea (km2)PopulationMost spoken language
Botleng808015.0930,793Zulu
Delmas8080513.413,496Afrikaans
Eloff8080311.151,391Afrikaans
Sundra8080471.383,252Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality808021,466.2117,275Southern 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of eleven seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.[6][7]

PartyVotesSeats
WardListTotal%WardListTotal
African National Congress 11,58811,93523,52365.18311
Democratic Alliance 3,7733,7647,53720.9134
Economic Freedom Fighters 1,7791,8313,61010.0022
Freedom Front Plus 5154921,0072.8000
Independent 469–4691.30–0
Total 18,12418,02236,146100.09817
Spoilt votes 399399798

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. "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.
  5. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  6. "Results Summary – All Ballots: Delmas" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  7. "Seat Calculation Detail: Delmas" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
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