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:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Giyani Part 221.5332,673Tsonga
Giyani Part 30.24415Tsonga
Hlaneki365.0423,402Tsonga
Mabunda1.633,861Tsonga
Makhuva131.903,615Tsonga
Modjadji4.034,373Tsonga
Msengi87.748,279Tsonga
Ndengeza82.9810,751Tsonga
Nkuri5.357,052Tsonga
Nkomo3.924,029Tsonga
Shiviti815.9739,610Tsonga
Remainder of the municipality 1,444.4799,343Tsonga

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 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: