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Ba Phalaborwa Local Municipality

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Country
  
South Africa

Seat
  
Phalaborwa

Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+2)

Area
  
7,462 kmĀ²

Black african population
  
93%

Native sotho speakers
  
2.8%

District
  
Mopani

Wards
  
18

Municipal code
  
LIM334

White population
  
6.4%

Native afrikaans speakers
  
5.1%

Province
  
Limpopo

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Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality is located in the Mopani District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. The seat of Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality is Phalaborwa.

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Map of Phalaborwa, South Africa

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining eighteen 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 twenty-six seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality Wikipedia