Maruleng Local Municipality

Maruleng Municipality is a local municipality within the Mopani District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Hoedspruit.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Place	Code	Area	Population	Most spoken language
Banereng Ba Letsoalo		122.29	6,752	Northern Sotho
Banereng Ba Sekororo		210.51	35,268	Northern Sotho
Hoedspruit		7.17	2,052	Afrikaans
Letaba		21.58	2,483	Northern Sotho
Mametja		316.08	26,702	Northern Sotho
Naphuno		10.36	8,188	Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality		2,543.64	12,929	Tsonga

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 fifteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.

Corruption

In 2018, the Municipal Manager of Maruleng, Sutane Johannes Lethole, was accused of outsourcing the rental of a single truck for waste removal waste removal at R500 000 per month, with a 15% annual escalation. Lethole was also alleged to have increased his own salary to R1.1 million a month, with a cellphone allowance of R2063, without council approval. Lethole resigned after the Democratic Alliance and Civic Warriors of Maruleng brought the corruption to light.