Maruleng Local Municipality


Maruleng Local Municipality is located in the Mopani District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. The seat of Maruleng Local Municipality is Hoedspruit.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Banereng Ba Letsoalo122.296,752Northern Sotho
Banereng Ba Sekororo210.5135,268Northern Sotho
Hoedspruit7.172,052Afrikaans
Letaba21.582,483Northern Sotho
Mametja316.0826,702Northern Sotho
Naphuno10.368,188Northern Sotho
Remainder of the municipality2,543.6412,929Tsonga

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 fifteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.