Maletswai Local Municipality is a now defunct administrative area in the
Joe Gqabi District of the
Eastern Cape in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. The municipality was merged with
Gariep Local Municipality immediately after the August 2016 Local Municipal Elections to form the new
Walter Sisulu Local Municipality.
Maletswai is a
Sesotho
Sotho () or Sesotho () or Southern Sotho is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken primarily by the Basotho in Lesotho, where it is the national and official language; South Africa (particularly the Free ...
name that means "a place of salt". The thermal springs resort, named Aliwal Spa, is located within the municipal area and produces salty water, rich in minerals, from underground. During 2010-2014 this once beautiful resort was re-constructed and opened to the public again in 2015.
Main places
The
2011 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Neighbours
The neighbours of Maletswai Local Municipality in the
Joe Gqabi District Municipality
Joe Gqabi District Municipality is one of the seven districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Joe Gqabi is Barkly East. The majority of its 349,768 people speak IsiXhosa ( 2011 census).
Before 1 February 2010 it was known a ...
(DC14) are:
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Gariep Local Municipality to the West and
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Senqu Local Municipality to the East.
South of Maletswai lies the
Chris Hani District Municipality
Chris Hani is a landlocked district situated in the centre of the Eastern Cape and is made up of eight local municipalities. Most of the communities live in rural areas. The landscape ranges from moist uplands and grassland hills to the arid Ka ...
(DC13) with:
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Lukhanji (
Queenstown) and
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Inkwanca (
Molteno).
On the
Free State side is
Mohokare Local Municipality
Mohokare Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Xhariep District Municipality, Xhariep District of the Free State (South African province), Free State in South Africa. The name is a Sesotho language, Sesotho word for Caledon River, whi ...
in the
Xhariep District Municipality
Xhariep is one of the 5 districts of Free State province of South Africa.The District is the largest in the Free State Geographically and is known for its vast land. The District is home to the largest dam in the Country, the Gariep Dam and has t ...
(DC16).
Politics
The municipal council consisted of twelve members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors were elected by
first-past-the-post voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
in six
wards, while the remaining six were 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
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) won a majority of nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
Official website
{{Municipalities of the Eastern Cape
Former local municipalities of South Africa