Greater Tubatse Local Municipality


Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality is located in the Sekhukhune District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. In 2016, 3 August, it was merged with the Fetakgomo Local Municipality to form the Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Babina Naare Ba Kgoete323.41354Northern Sotho
Badimong181.2710,653Northern Sotho
Burgersfort23.671,578Northern Sotho
Doornbosch Mine0.27406Swazi
Lavino Chrome Mine1.0587Afrikaans
Magnetite Mine1.6630Northern Sotho
Marota61.470-
Matlala a Dinkwanyane44.0724Northern Sotho
Monganeng95.741,048Northern Sotho
Montrose Mine1.12225Afrikaans
Motodi0.56467Northern Sotho
Naphuno46.420-
Ohrigstad8.76202Northern Sotho
Penge6.521,257Northern Sotho
SD871.7187,790Northern Sotho
Sealane4.06939Northern Sotho
Sekhukhuneland891.98142,126Northern Sotho
Soe59.2313,931Northern Sotho
Steelpoort8.831,101Northern Sotho
Winterveld Mine1.351,076Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality1,954.826,855Northern Sotho

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 18 May 2011, the African National Congress won a majority of fifty seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.