Makhado Local Municipality is located in the Vhembe District Municipality of

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 ...

province,

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. The seat of Makhado Local Municipality

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Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: The population census is just an estimate, there are close to 1-million Tsonga speakers in

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alone, as well as close to 300 000 Venda speakers, also in

, who are there for work purposes only and have their homes in

, both the Tsonga and the Venda population are larger should the census count be done during December holiday.

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-five members elected by

mixed-member proportional representation Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...

. Thirty-eight councillors are elected by

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in thirty-eight wards, while the remaining thirty-seven are chosen from

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s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 3 August 2016 the

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

References

External links

Official homepage
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