Elias Motsoaledi Municipality (; ), formerly the Greater Groblersdal Municipality, is a local municipality within the Sekhukhune District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Groblersdal. It is named in honour of the anti-apartheid activist Elias Motsoaledi.
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 Bakwena 984010.35682Northern Sotho Barokgoga Bakopa 984020.39756Northern Sotho Greater Groblersdal 98403146.782,556Northern Sotho Groblersdal 884026.262,480Afrikaans Mathula 8840367.9117,576Southern Ndebele Matsepe 984044.741,179Northern Sotho Motetema Part 1 984051.093,739Northern Sotho Motetema Part 2 884040.60767Northern Sotho Moutse 3 Part 1 984060.39935Northern Sotho Moutse 3 Part 2 88405324.8597,618Northern Sotho Ndebele 98407220.8348,914Northern Sotho Nebo 98408142.0631,888Northern Sotho Remainder of the municipality 884012,757.0811,646Northern Sotho
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-one 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 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 36 seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
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