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Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, is a municipality of South Africa, located in the 
Thaba Chweu Government site
2000 establishments in South Africa Local municipalities of the Ehlanzeni District Municipality {{Mpumalanga-geo-stub
Ehlanzeni District Municipality
Ehlanzeni is one of the 3 districts of Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat of Ehlanzeni is Mbombela. The majority of its 944 665 people speak SiSwati (2001 Census). The district code is DC32.
Geography Neighbours
Ehlanzeni is surro ...
, Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It ...
.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected bymixed-member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...
. Fourteen are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards
Ward may refer to:
Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
, while the remaining thirteen are chosen from party list
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...
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 African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of sixteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
By-elections from November 2021
The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since November 2021. After the by-election, the council was reconfigured as below:References
External links
Thaba Chweu Government site
2000 establishments in South Africa Local municipalities of the Ehlanzeni District Municipality {{Mpumalanga-geo-stub