Victor Khanye Local Municipality (formerly Delmas Local Municipality) is located in the

Nkangala District Municipality Nkangala is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Nkangala is Middelburg. The Nkangala District Municipality consists of 160 towns and villages. The most spoken language of its 1,308,129 people is IsiNdebele w ...

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province,

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. The seat of Delmas Local Municipality is

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. The local municipality was one of the four to have passed the 2009-10 audit by the

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, who deemed it to have a clean administration.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

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 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 their ...

in nine wards, while the remaining eight are chosen from

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s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the

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(ANC) won a majority of nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official homepage
{{Nkangala District Municipality Local municipalities of the Nkangala District Municipality