Thabazimbi Local Municipality
Template:Infobox South African municipality Thabazimbi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Waterberg District of Limpopo in South Africa. The seat of Thabazimbi Local Municipality is Thabazimbi.
Thabazimbi is an isiZulu name meaning "iron mountain". The Zulu and Nyasa speaking people worked on this mountain to mine iron.[1]
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[2]
| Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amandelbult | 91401 | 47.73 | 2,076 | Tswana |
| Ipeleng | 91402 | 0.02 | 940 | Tswana |
| Middeldrift | 91403 | 1.15 | 2,138 | Afrikaans |
| Mmebane | 91404 | 0.01 | 283 | Northern Sotho |
| Northam | 91405 | 47.56 | 6,180 | Tswana |
| Regorogile | 91406 | 1.11 | 7,609 | Tswana |
| Rooiberg Tin Mine | 91407 | 4.32 | 250 | Afrikaans |
| Rooikrans | 91408 | 2.69 | 153 | Tswana |
| Smersha Block | 91409 | 1.33 | 12,875 | Xhosa |
| Swartklip | 91410 | 14.18 | 2,912 | Afrikaans |
| Swartkop | 91411 | 0.56 | 103 | Afrikaans |
| Thabazimbi | 91413 | 10.76 | 4,423 | Afrikaans |
| Remainder of the municipality | 91412 | 9,723.06 | 23,968 | Tswana |
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twelve councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twelve wards, while the remaining eleven 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) lost its majority on the council. Midah Moselane of the Thabazimbi Residents Association subsequently was elected mayor with support from the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Economic Freedom Fighters, and the Freedom Front Plus.
The following table shows the results of the election.[3][4]
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #006600;" data-sort-value="African National Congress" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #005BA6;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance (South Africa)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #852A2A;" data-sort-value="Economic Freedom Fighters" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Thabazimbi Residents Association" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF6600;" data-sort-value="Freedom Front Plus" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFB300;" data-sort-value="United Democratic Movement" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politics)" || Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
| ANC | 10,210 | 10,151 | 20,361 | 45.3 | 8 | 2 | 10 | |
| DA | 4,982 | 5,002 | 9,984 | 22.2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| EFF | 4,469 | 4,629 | 9,098 | 20.2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Thabazimbi Residents Association | 1,891 | 1,878 | 3,769 | 8.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| VF+ | 630 | 583 | 1,213 | 2.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| UDM | 257 | 342 | 499 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent | 25 | - | 25 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 22,464 | 22,485 | 44,949 | 100.0 | 12 | 11 | 23 | |
| Spoilt votes | 456 | 459 | 915 | |||||
References
- ^ South African Languages - Place names
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Thabazimbi" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Thabazimbi" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
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