Thembisile Hani Local Municipality
The municipality is named after Thembisile Chris Hani, the Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, who was assassinated on 10 April 1993.Flare fm SA is a popular local successful radio station based in KwaMhlanga in the Thembisile Hani Local Municipality
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Place | Code | Area (km) | Population | Most spoken language |
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Ekangala | 81201 | 5.61 | 1,509 | Zulu |
KwaMhlanga Part 1 | 81202 | 254.72 | 71,756 | Southern Ndebele |
KwaMhlanga Part 2 | 81215 | 5.91 | 6,085 | Southern Ndebele |
Mabusa National Park | 81203 | 100.64 | 99 | Sotho |
Mkobola | 81204 | 320.15 | 107,560 | Southern Ndebele |
Moutse 3 | 81205 | 1.68 | 1,788 | Northern Sotho |
Sokhulumi | 81206 | 0.33 | 610 | Southern Ndebele |
Thokoza | 81208 | 2.27 | 4,459 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein North | 81210 | 12.07 | 30000 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein South | 81211 | 13.91 | 24,407 | Southern Ndebele |
Tweefontein | 81209 | 23.26 | 45 | Northern Sotho |
Vezubuhle | 81212 | 5.26 | 10,399 | Southern Ndebele |
Vlakfontein | 81213 | 0.76 | 548 | Southern Ndebele |
Wolvenkop | 81214 | 1.34 | 2,161 | Southern Ndebele |
Remainder of the municipality | 81207 | 1,761.83 | 6,704 | Southern Ndebel |
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-two 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Party | Ward | List | Total seats | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
African National Congress | 36,509 | 60.58 | 30 | 37,469 | 62.68 | 10 | 40 | |
Economic Freedom Fighters | 10,274 | 17.05 | 0 | 11,639 | 19.47 | 12 | 12 | |
Democratic Alliance | 3,355 | 5.57 | 0 | 3,509 | 5.87 | 4 | 4 | |
African Independent People's Organisation | 2,326 | 3.86 | 0 | 2,429 | 4.06 | 3 | 3 | |
Independent candidates | 4,404 | 7.31 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Sindawonye Progressive Party | 873 | 1.45 | 0 | 1,024 | 1.71 | 1 | 1 | |
Ingubo Yeskhethu Party | 641 | 1.06 | 0 | 990 | 1.66 | 1 | 1 | |
African Transformation Movement | 477 | 0.79 | 0 | 409 | 0.68 | 1 | 1 | |
8 other parties | 1,404 | 2.33 | 0 | 2,309 | 3.86 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 60,263 | 100.00 | 32 | 59,778 | 100.00 | 32 | 64 | |
Valid votes | 60,263 | 97.68 | 59,778 | 97.38 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,432 | 2.32 | 1,611 | 2.62 | ||||
Total votes | 61,695 | 100.00 | 61,389 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 151,479 | 40.73 | 151,479 | 40.53 |
References
- ^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Thembisile Hani". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-10-20.