Victor Khanye Local Municipality Explained

Victor Khanye
Settlement Type:Local municipality
Seal Size:150x100px
Map Alt:Location in Mpumalanga
Coordinates:-26.1667°N 73°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:South Africa
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Mpumalanga
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Nkangala
Seat:Delmas
Parts Type:Wards
Parts:9
Government Footnotes:[1]
Government Type:Municipal council
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Vusi Buda
Area Total Km2:1568
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:75452
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Demographics Type1:Racial makeup
Demographics1 Info1:82.3%
Demographics1 Info2:1.1%
Demographics1 Info3:0.3%
Demographics1 Info4:16.0%
Demographics Type2:First languages
Demographics2 Footnotes:[3]
Demographics2 Info1:36.0%
Demographics2 Info2:25.4%
Demographics2 Info3:15.9%
Demographics2 Info4:3.9%
Demographics2 Info5:18.8%
Timezone1:SAST
Utc Offset1:+2
Blank Name Sec1:Municipal code
Blank Info Sec1:MP311

Victor Khanye Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala iVictor Khanye; Ndebele, South; South Ndebele: UMasipaladi weVictor Khanye; Afrikaans: Victor Khanye Munisipaliteit), formerly Delmas Municipality, is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat 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]

Main places

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

Place Code Area (km2)Population Most spoken language
808015.0930,793Zulu
8080513.413,496Afrikaans
8080311.151,391Afrikaans
8080471.383,252Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality 808021,466.2117,275Southern Ndebele

Politics

See main article: Victor Khanye Local Municipality elections. 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of nine seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Contact list: Executive Mayors . Government Communication & Information System . 22 February 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100714013749/http://www.gcis.gov.za/gcis/gcis_list.jsp?id=14&heading=Executive%20Mayors . 14 July 2010 . dead . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: Statistics by place . Statistics South Africa . 27 September 2015.
  3. Web site: Statistics by place . Statistics South Africa . 27 September 2015.
  4. Web site: Auditor-General urges South Africa’s mayors to lead the drive towards clean administration by 2014 . 2017-08-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120223055508/http://www.agsa.co.za/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=KrCmgbSP7gQ%3D&tabid=99&mid=752 . 2012-02-23 . dead .
  5. http://www.statssa.gov.za/census01/html/lookuptables1.zip Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  6. Web site: Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Victor Khanye . 2022-06-25 . wikitable.frith.dev.