Country South Africa Seat Thabazimbi Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Area 11,190 km² Black african population 84.3% Native tswana speakers 41.2% Province Limpopo | District Waterberg Wards 12 Municipal code LIM361 White population 14.4% Native afrikaans speakers 15.7% Native xhosa speakers 12.3% | |
Thabazimbi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Waterberg District of Limpopo in South Africa. The seat of Thabazimbi Local Municipality is Thabazimbi.
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Map of Thabazimbi, South Africa
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:
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 (ANC) lost its majority on the council. Midah Moselane of the Thabazimbi Residents Association subsequently was elected mayor with support from the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), and the Freedom Front Plus (FF+).
The following table shows the results of the election.