Midvaal Municipality (; ; ) is a local municipality within the

Sedibeng District Municipality The Sedibeng District Municipality (; ; ) is one of the districts of the Gauteng province of South Africa. The administrative seat of the district is Vereeniging. As of 2011, the most widely spoken language among its 794,605 inhabitants was Sesoth ...

, in the

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province of

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. The municipality's name references its geographical location in-between the

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and

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areas and the Vaal and Vereeniging areas. Midvaal Municipality is the fastest growing municipality in Gauteng due to its rapid economic growth. Midvaal has undergone a radical change from a quaint country area to a booming tourist, recreational and industrial centre in southern Gauteng. Midvaal has grown from 60,000 residents in 2001 to about 100,000 in 2011. A report by the Gauteng Provincial Government ranked Midvaal as the province's top municipality in terms of quality of life. In December 2010, Midvaal was ranked 23rd out of 231 municipalities. The Oprah Winfrey School was established in the area. In addition, golfer

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invested into the Eye of Africa Golfing Estate development, for which he designed the golf course. The municipality's major achievement has been attracting Sedibeng Breweries, South Africa's distributors of

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, into the area. The brewery has set up its national offices along the R59 freeway corridor and has brought with it new opportunities for job creation and small businesses.

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty members elected by

mixed-member proportional representation Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a type of representation provided by some mixed electoral system, mixed electoral systems which combine local Winner-take-all system, winner-take-all elections with a Compensation (el ...

. Fifteen councillors are elected by

first-past-the-post voting First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...

in fifteen wards, while the remaining fifteen 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 Democratic Alliance (DA) won a majority of nineteen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

Demographics

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
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References

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* {{Authority control Local municipalities of the Sedibeng District Municipality