Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality

Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The seat of Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality is Siyabuswa.

Dr JS Moroka
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Mpumalanga
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
District	Nkangala
Seat	Siyabuswa
Wards	31
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Grace Tinny Mthimunye
Area
• Total	1,416 km^2 (547 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	249,705
• Density	180/km^2 (460/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	99.4%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	0.1%
First languages (2011) [3]
• Southern Ndebele	36.2%
• Northern Sotho	30.7%
• Tswana	17.3%
• Tsonga	5.0%
• Other	10.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	MP316

Main places

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

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	Population	Most spoken language
Dr JS Moroka	81301	186.37	185	Northern Sotho
Kameelpoort	81302	0.93	1,639	Northern Sotho
Mbibana	81303	16.73	6,098	Northern Sotho
Mdutjana	81304	260.44	84,756	Southern Ndebele
Moretele	81305	915.02	112,330	Tswana
Moutse 2	81306	4.40	0	-
Siyabuswa	81307	13.56	26,273	Southern Ndebele
Toitskraal	81308	0.47	207	Southern Ndebele
Vaalbank	81309	3.85	11,818	Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-one wards, while the remaining thirty-one 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 forty-three 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	46,379	46,985	93,364	67.8	30	13	43
	Economic Freedom Fighters	11,057	10,784	21,841	15.9	0	10	10
	Democratic Alliance	4,257	4,432	8,689	6.3	0	4	4
	Independent	4,387	–	4,387	3.2	1	–	1
	African Independent Congress	275	1,438	1,713	1.2	0	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress	675	684	1,359	1.0	0	1	1
	Forum 4 Service Delivery	508	531	1,039	0.8	0	1	1
	African People's Convention	366	594	960	0.7	0	1	1
	Others	1,811	2,535	4,346	3.2	0	0	0
Total		69,715	67,983	137,698	100.0	31	31	62
Spoilt votes		1,505	1,922	3,427

In a by-election held on 8 January 2019, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate.[7] Council composition was reconfigured as seen below:

Party		Ward	PR list	Total
	ANC	29	13	42
	Economic Freedom Fighters	0	10	10
	Democratic Alliance	0	4	4
	Independent	2	–	2
	African Independent Congress	0	1	1
	African People's Convention	0	1	1
	Forum 4 Service Delivery	0	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress	0	1	1
Total		31	31	62

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: Dr JS Moroka" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
6. "Seat Calculation Detail: Dr JS Moroka" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
7. "Independent candidate supported by F4SD snatches Mpumalanga ward from ANC". Independent Online. 9 January 2019.

External links

• Official homepage