Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality is located in the
Mopani District Municipality of
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. It is named after the Limpopo River, which forms the province's western and northern borders. The capital and largest city in the province is Polokwane, while the provincial legislature ...
province,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring coun ...
. The seat of the municipality is
Tzaneen
Tzaneen () is a large tropical garden town situated in the Mopani District Municipality of the Limpopo province in South Africa. It is situated in a high rainfall fertile region with tropical and subtropical agriculture taking place in a region ...
.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-nine members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-five councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast the ...
in thirty-five
wards, while the remaining thirty-four 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
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) won a majority of fifty-two seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
Official homepage
{{Authority control
Local municipalities of the Mopani District Municipality