Thembelihle Local Municipality
| Thembelihle | ||
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| Local municipality | ||
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.svg) Location in the Northern Cape |
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| Coordinates: 29°45′S 23°45′E / 29.750°S 23.750°ECoordinates: 29°45′S 23°45′E / 29.750°S 23.750°E | ||
| Country | South Africa | |
| Province | Northern Cape | |
| District | Pixley ka Seme | |
| Seat | Hopetown | |
| Wards | 4 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Municipal council | |
| • Mayor | Danny Andries Jonas (EFF) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 8,023 km2 (3,098 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 15,701 | |
| • Density | 2.0/km2 (5.1/sq mi) | |
| Racial makeup (2011) | ||
| • Black African | 15.2% | |
| • Coloured | 70.7% | |
| • Indian/Asian | 0.5% | |
| • White | 13.1% | |
| First languages (2011) | ||
| • Afrikaans | 90.4% | |
| • Xhosa | 5.1% | |
| • English | 1.3% | |
| • Tswana | 1.3% | |
| • Other | 1.9% | |
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) | |
| Municipal code | NC076 | |
Thembelihle Local Municipality (formerly known as Oranje-Karoo Local Municipality) is a local municipality in the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality district of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Thembelihle is a Xhosa name meaning "good hope".
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
The municipal council consists of seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in four wards, while the remaining three 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 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of four seats on the council.
The opposition took control of the council in December 2011, after ANC lost a by-election to an independent candidate. The independent, former ANC member Danny Jonas, became the new mayor of the municipality supported by the Congress of the People and the Democratic Alliance.
The following table shows the results of the May 2011 election.
The following table shows the results of the August 2016 municipal election.
Inhabitants of Orania do not vote in the elections for the municipal council of Thembelihle. They elect their own transitional representative council.
Although the Afrikaner-only town of Orania officially lies within the geographical borders of the Thembelihle municipality, it is not governed by the Thembelihle municipality. Orania is the only town in South Africa that still has its own transitional representative council in place. These transitional representative councils were the common form of local government in South Africa between 1994 and 2000.
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