Victor Khanye Local Municipality


Victor Khanye Municipality, formerly Delmas Municipality, is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat is Delmas. The local municipality was one of the four to have passed the 2009-10 audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa, who deemed it to have a clean administration. The Victor Khanye Local Municipality is named after Victor Khanye, an ANC activist in the anti-apartheid campaign.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Botleng5.0930,793Zulu
Delmas13.413,496Afrikaans
Eloff11.151,391Afrikaans
Sundra71.383,252Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality1,466.2117,275Southern Ndebele

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventeen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining eight 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 nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.