Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality

Fetakgomo Tubatse
FTM
Map of Limpopo with Fetakgomo/Tubatse highlighted
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceLimpopo
DistrictGreater Sekhukhune
SeatBurgersfort
Government
 • TypeMunicipal council
Area
 • Total
5,693 km2 (2,198 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total
429,471
 • Density75.44/km2 (195.4/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal codeLIM476

Fetakgomo Tubatse Municipality (Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Fetakgomo Tubatse)[2] is a local municipality within the Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by merging the Fetakgomo and Greater Tubatse local municipalities.[3]

Politics

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

PartyWardListTotal
seats
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
African National Congress54,33866.623956,66569.751554
Economic Freedom Fighters13,65116.74014,16117.431414
Independent candidates4,5045.5200
Socialist Agenda of Dispossessed Africans1,5951.9602,0722.5522
Democratic Alliance1,6041.9701,7172.1122
Azanian People's Organisation8461.0408060.9911
Power of Africans Unity6870.8408991.1111
Freedom Front Plus6110.7505640.6911
Bolsheviks Party of South Africa6070.7405210.6411
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania4890.6006000.7411
17 other parties2,6363.2303,2303.9800
Total81,568100.003981,235100.003877
Valid votes81,56898.4181,23597.77
Invalid/blank votes1,3171.591,8502.23
Total votes82,885100.0083,085100.00
Registered voters/turnout200,18441.40200,18441.50

References

  1. ^ a b Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Fetakgomo, Greater Tubatse.
  2. ^ Ndou, Jerry (10 November 2017). "Notice in terms of section 16(3) of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998 (Act 117 of 1998): official names of LIM 345, LIM 368 and LIM 476 local municipalities" (PDF). Limpopo Provincial Gazette. Vol. 24, no. 2864. Polokwane: Government Printer. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  3. ^ "The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Greater Tubatse/Fetakgomo". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2025-09-04.