Thulamela Municipality (; ) is a
local municipality within the
Vhembe District Municipality, in the
Limpopo
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province of
South Africa
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. Its municipal boundaries were greatly altered after the
2016 municipal elections when much of the area that formerly belonged to the municipality, including the town of
Malamulele, was incorporated into the newly formed
Collins Chabane Local Municipality. It is named after the
Thulamela ruins located near the Pafuri Gate of the
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park () is a national park in South Africa covering an area of in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in the country's northeast. It extends from north to south and from east to west. The administrative headquarters are i ...
.
Main places
The
2011 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of eighty-one members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a type of representation provided by some mixed electoral system, mixed electoral systems which combine local Winner-take-all system, winner-take-all elections with a Compensation (el ...
. Forty-one councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting
First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...
in forty-one
wards, while the remaining forty 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
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(ANC) won a majority of 71 seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
Official website
{{Authority control
Local municipalities of the Vhembe District Municipality