Greater Giyani Municipality () is a local municipality within the Mopani District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Giyani.
Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language Giyani Part 2 9011121.5332,673Tsonga Giyani Part 3 901120.24415Tsonga Hlaneki 90102365.0423,402Tsonga Mabunda 901031.633,861Tsonga Makhuva 90104131.903,615Tsonga Modjadji 901054.034,373Tsonga Msengi 9010687.748,279Tsonga Ndengeza 9010782.9810,751Tsonga Nkuri 901085.357,052Tsonga Nkomo 901093.924,029Tsonga Shiviti 90110815.9739,610Tsonga Remainder of the municipality (Giyani Part 1) 901011,444.4799,343Tsonga
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-two 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-one 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 forty-seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
South African general election, 2014 Results of the National Assembly election of 2014 for Greater Giyani Local Municipality: ANC 89.2% EFF 5.3% DA 3.2% ACDP 0.5% COPE 0.4% AIC 0.4% APC 0.3% UDM 0.1% AGANG SA 0.1% PAC 0.1% FF+ 0.1% IFP 0.1% UCDP 0.0% AZAPO 0.0% WASP 0.0% NFP 0.0% UBUNTU 0.0% PA 0.0% BRA 0.0% KISS 0.0% PAM 0.0% ICOSA 0.0% FN 0.0% MF 0.0% UNICO 0.0% FINLA 0.0% PAL 0.0% KGM 0.0% Al Jama-ah 0.0%
References
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