Greater Giyani Local Municipality
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:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Giyani Part 2 | 21.53 | 32,673 | Tsonga | |
| Giyani Part 3 | 0.24 | 415 | Tsonga | |
| Hlaneki | 365.04 | 23,402 | Tsonga | |
| Mabunda | 1.63 | 3,861 | Tsonga | |
| Makhuva | 131.90 | 3,615 | Tsonga | |
| Modjadji | 4.03 | 4,373 | Tsonga | |
| Msengi | 87.74 | 8,279 | Tsonga | |
| Ndengeza | 82.98 | 10,751 | Tsonga | |
| Nkuri | 5.35 | 7,052 | Tsonga | |
| Nkomo | 3.92 | 4,029 | Tsonga | |
| Shiviti | 815.97 | 39,610 | Tsonga | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 1,444.47 | 99,343 | Tsonga |
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 won a majority of forty-seven seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.