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Makhado
Local municipality
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Location in Limpopo
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Vhembe
Seat	Louis Trichardt
Wards	38
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Samuel Munyai
Area
• Total	8,300 km (3,200 sq mi)
Population
• Total	516,031
• Density	62/km (160/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	97.3%
• Coloured	0.2%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	2.0%
First languages (2011)
• Venda	68.1%
• Tsonga	22.1%
• Northern Sotho	2.6%
• Afrikaans	2.2%
• Other	5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	LIM344

Makhado Municipality (Venda: Masipalawapo wa Makhado; Tsonga: Masipala wa Makhado) is a local municipality within the Vhembe District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Louis Trichardt.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places: The population census is just an estimate, there are close to 1-million Tsonga speakers in Gauteng alone, as well as close to 300 000 Venda speakers, also in Gauteng, who are there for work purposes only and have their homes in Limpopo, both the Tsonga and the Venda population are larger should the census count be done during December holiday.

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-eight councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-eight wards, while the remaining thirty-seven 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of sixty-two seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

1. "Zoutnet - Infighting delays election of Makhado mayor for hours". www.zoutnet.co.za. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
2. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
3. ^ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. "Public to have say in Makhado name change".
5. Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
6. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Makhado". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2023-02-26.

External links

• Official homepage

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