Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality
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Municipal code | LIM334 |
Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality (
Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Ba-Phalaborwa; Tsonga: Masipala wa Ba-Phalaborwa) is a local municipality within the Mopani District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Phalaborwa
.
Main places
The
main places
:
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ba-Phalaborwa NU | 963002 | 2,726.97 | 6,131 | Tsonga |
Ben Farm | 963010 | 7.49 | 12,757 | Tsonga |
Ga-Makhushane | 963012 | 9.92 | 13,499 | Northern Sotho
|
Ga-Mashishimale | 963014 | 13,920 | 13.35 | Northern Sotho |
Ga-Selwana | 963014 | 4.65 | 5,263 | Northern Sotho |
Gravelotte |
963013 | 1.98 | 1,098 | Tsonga |
Kruger National Park | 963006 | 4,456.66 | 1,499 | Tsonga |
Leydsdorp | 963017 | 0.79 | 6 | Tsonga |
Mahale | 963004 | 1.23 | 1,825 | Tsonga |
Majeje | 963008 | 19.6 | 40,225 | Tsonga |
Ga-Maseke | 963015 | 4.86 | 2,752 | Northern Sotho |
Murchison | 963009 | 5.85 | 1,288 | Tsonga |
Namakgale | 963011 | 12.97 | 36,365 | Northern Sotho
|
Nondweni | 963005 | 0.76 | 984 | Tsonga |
Phalaborwa | 963007 | 193.33 | 13,108 | Afrikaans |
Priska-Majeje | 963001 | 0.91 | 626 | Tsonga |
Boelang | 963016 | 0.43 | 291 | Tsonga/Northern Sotho |
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by
party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress
(ANC) won a majority of twenty-four seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.[3]
Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
Patriotic Alliance | 10 | 0.03 | 0 | 22 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 31,801 | 100.00 | 19 | 31,461 | 100.00 | 18 | 37 | |
Valid votes | 31,801 | 97.85 | 31,461 | 97.60 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 699 | 2.15 | 772 | 2.40 | ||||
Total votes | 32,500 | 100.00 | 32,233 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 75,415 | 43.09 | 75,415 | 42.74 |
References
- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Ba-Phalaborwa". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-12-23.