Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality


Dr JS Moroka Municipality is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat is Siyabuswa. It is named after James Moroka, 8th President-General of the African National Congress.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Dr JS Moroka186.37185Northern Sotho
Kameelpoort0.931,639Northern Sotho
Mbibana16.736,098Northern Sotho
Mdutjana260.4484,756Southern Ndebele
Moretele915.02112,330Tswana
Moutse 24.400-
Siyabuswa13.5626,273Southern Ndebele
Toitskraal0.47207Southern Ndebele
Vaalbank3.8511,818Northern Sotho

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of forty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.
In a by-election held on 8 January 2019, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: