Govan Mbeki Local Municipality


Govan Mbeki Local Municipality is a South African local municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Secunda is the seat of the municipality.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Bethal101.508,512Afrikaans
Brendan Village0.66277Afrikaans
Charl Cilliers1.58210Zulu
Eendrag1.85293Afrikaans
Embalenhle13.6391,751Zulu
eMzinoni5.1931,012Zulu
Evander40.158,212Afrikaans
Highveld Ridge Mines71.84325Zulu
Kinross3.994,906English
Leandra1.599Zulu
Lebogang3.8819,396Zulu
Leslie2.08761Afrikaans
Leslie Gold Mines0.190-
Mandela Section0.231,083Xhosa
Milan Park1.744,760Zulu
Secunda150.7126,125Afrikaans
Sorento Park0.9512Afrikaans/Zulu
Trichardt1.531,973Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality2,555.6822,132Zulu

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-one 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 won a majority of thirty-six seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 9 October 2019, a ward previously held by a DA councillor was won by the ANC candidate. The council was reconfigured as seen below: