Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality

Greater Tzaneen Municipality (Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Greater Tzaneen; Tsonga: Masipala wa Greater Tzaneen) is a local municipality within the Mopani District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Tzaneen.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[3]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population	Most spoken language
Bakgaga Ba Maake	90301	14.37	12,651	Northern Sotho
Bakgage	90302	14.54	14,923	Northern Sotho
Vankuna	90303	448.79	151,014	Tsonga
Batlhabine Ba Magoboya	90304	65.26	17,883	Northern Sotho
Dwarsfontein	90305	0.45	983	Northern Sotho
Haenertsburg	90307	1.04	481	English
Letsitele	90308	1.16	310	Afrikaans
Modjadji	90309	315.69	84,386	Northern Sotho
N'wamitwa	90310	165.78	36,344	Tsonga
Nyavana	90311	44.36	8,783	Tsonga
Tzaneen	90312	18.80	6,959	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	90306	2,149.54	40,856	Northern Sotho

The municipal council consists of sixty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-five councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-five wards, while the remaining thirty-four 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifty-two seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.^[4]^[5]

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Greater Tzaneen" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Greater Tzaneen" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 January 2017.