Mutale Local Municipality was a municipality located in the

Vhembe District Municipality Vhembe is one of the 5 districts of Limpopo province of South Africa. It is the northernmost district of the country and shares its northern border with Beitbridge district in Zimbabwe and on the east with Gaza Province in Mozambique. Vhembe co ...

Limpopo Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. It is named after the Limpopo River, which forms the province's western and northern borders. The capital and largest city in the province is Polokwane, while the provincial legislature is ...

province,

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. The seat of Mutale Local Municipality was

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. It is now part of Thulamela and Musina Local Municipalities.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consisted of twenty-six members elected by

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. Thirteen 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 their ...

in thirteen

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, while the remaining thirteen were chosen from

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s so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 the

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(ANC) won a majority of twenty-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official homepage
{{Municipalities of Limpopo Local municipalities of the Vhembe District Municipality