Country South Africa Seat Balfour Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 2,617 km² Black african population 89.8% Native english speakers 3% | Province Mpumalanga Wards 6 Municipal code MP306 White population 8.6% Native afrikaans speakers 9% Native sotho speakers 24.2% | |
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District Gert Sibande District Municipality | ||
Dipaleseng Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Balfour is the Seat of the municipality.
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Map of Balfour, South Africa
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of twelve members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in six wards, while the remaining six 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 nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
Dipaleseng Local Municipality Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA