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
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
District	Nkangala
Seat	Delmas
Wards	9
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Evah Makhabane
Area
• Total	1,568 km^2 (605 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	75,452
• Density	48/km^2 (120/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	82.3%
• Coloured	1.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	16.0%
First languages (2011) [3]
• Zulu	36.0%
• Southern Ndebele	25.4%
• Afrikaans	15.9%
• Sotho	3.9%
• Other	18.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	MP311

Main places

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

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	Population	Most spoken language
Botleng	80801	5.09	30,793	Zulu
Delmas	80805	13.41	3,496	Afrikaans
Eloff	80803	11.15	1,391	Afrikaans
Sundra	80804	71.38	3,252	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	80802	1,466.21	17,275	Southern 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]

Party		Votes				Seats
		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
	ANC	11,588	11,935	23,523	65.1	8	3	11
	Democratic Alliance	3,773	3,764	7,537	20.9	1	3	4
	Economic Freedom Fighters	1,779	1,831	3,610	10.0	0	2	2
	Freedom Front Plus	515	492	1,007	2.8	0	0	0
	Independent	469	–	469	1.3	0	–	0
Total		18,124	18,022	36,146	100.0	9	8	17
Spoilt votes		399	399	798

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.

External links

• Official homepage