The Thulamela Local Municipality is a Local municipality in the

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province of South Africa. Its municipal boundaries were greatly altered after the

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when much of the area that formerly belonged to the municipality, including the town of

Malamulele Malamulele can refer to the town of Malamulele or the area of Malamulele. Both the town (approximately in the center of the area) and area are in the Limpopo province of South Africa and predominantly occupied by Tsonga people. Malamulele town h ...

, was incorporated into the newly formed

Collins Chabane Local Municipality Collins Chabane Local Municipality is a local municipality of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by the merging of portions of two local municipalities: Thulamela and Makhado. Malamulele is the seat of the mu ...

. It is named after the Thulamela ruins located near the Pafuri Gate of the

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Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of eighty-one 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 ...

. Forty-one councillors are 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 the ...

in forty-one wards, while the remaining forty are chosen from

party list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

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 sixty-four seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Local municipalities of the Vhembe District Municipality