Thabazimbi Local Municipality


Thabazimbi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Waterberg District of Limpopo in South Africa. The seat of Thabazimbi Local Municipality is Thabazimbi.
Thabazimbi is an isiZulu name meaning "iron mountain". The Zulu and Nyasa speaking people worked on this mountain to mine iron.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Amandelbult47.732,076Tswana
Ipeleng0.02940Tswana
Middeldrift1.152,138Afrikaans
Mmebane0.01283Northern Sotho
Northam47.566,180Tswana
Regorogile1.117,609Tswana
Rooiberg Tin Mine4.32250Afrikaans
Rooikrans2.69153Tswana
Smersha Block1.3312,875Xhosa
Swartklip14.182,912Afrikaans
Swartkop0.56103Afrikaans
Thabazimbi10.764,423Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality9,723.0623,968Tswana

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twelve councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twelve wards, while the remaining eleven 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 lost its majority on the council. Midah Moselane of the Thabazimbi Residents Association subsequently was elected mayor with support from the Democratic Alliance, the Economic Freedom Fighters, and the Freedom Front Plus.
The following table shows the results of the election.