Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality Explained

Elias Motsoaledi
Settlement Type:Local municipality
Seal Size:150x100px
Map Alt:Location in Limpopo
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:South Africa
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Limpopo
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Sekhukhune
Seat:Groblersdal
Parts Type:Wards
Parts:30
Government Footnotes:[1]
Government Type:Municipal council
Leader Party:ANC
Leader Title:Mayor Cllr David Magetle Tladi
Leader Name:David Magetle Tladi
Area Total Km2:3713
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:249363
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Demographics Type1:Racial makeup
Demographics1 Info1:97.9%
Demographics1 Info2:0.1%
Demographics1 Info3:0.2%
Demographics1 Info4:1.6%
Demographics Type2:First languages
Demographics2 Footnotes:[3]
Demographics2 Info1:58.9%
Demographics2 Info2:14.9%
Demographics2 Info3:8.9%
Demographics2 Info4:6.2%
Demographics2 Info5:11.1%
Timezone1:SAST
Utc Offset1:+2
Blank Name Sec1:Municipal code
Blank Info Sec1:LIM472

Elias Motsoaledi Municipality (Pedi; Sepedi; Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Elias Motsoaledi; Ndebele, South; South Ndebele: UMasipaladi ye Elias Motsoaledi), formerly the Greater Groblersdal Municipality, is a local municipality within the Sekhukhune District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat of is Groblersdal. It is named in honour of the Elias Motsoaledi.

Main places

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

Place Code Area (km2)Population Most spoken language
984010.35682Northern Sotho
984020.39756Northern Sotho
98403146.782,556Northern Sotho
884026.262,480Afrikaans
8840367.9117,576Southern Ndebele
984044.741,179Northern Sotho
Motetema Part 1 984051.093,739Northern Sotho
Motetema Part 2 884040.60767Northern Sotho
Moutse 3 Part 1 984060.39935Northern Sotho
Moutse 3 Part 2 88405324.8597,618Northern Sotho
98407220.8348,914Northern Sotho
98408142.0631,888Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality 884012,757.0811,646Northern Sotho

Politics

See main article: Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality elections. The municipal council consists of sixty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-one wards, while the remaining thirty 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 36 seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.[5]

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Contact list: Executive Mayors . Government Communication & Information System . 22 February 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100714013749/http://www.gcis.gov.za/gcis/gcis_list.jsp?id=14&heading=Executive%20Mayors . 14 July 2010 .
  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. http://www.statssa.gov.za/census01/html/lookuptables1.zip Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  5. Web site: Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Elias Motsoaledi . 2023-09-28 . wikitable.frith.dev . Independent Electoral Commission.