Greater Giyani Local Municipality is located in the Mopani District Municipality of Limpopo province, South Africa. The seat of Greater Giyani Local Municipality is Giyani.

Greater Giyani
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Limpopo
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Mopani
Seat	Giyani
Wards	30
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Basani Agnes Shibambu
Area
• Total	4,172 km2 (1,611 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	244,217
• Density	59/km2 (150/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	99.5%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	0.1%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Tsonga	90.8%
• Khelobedu	3.8%
• Sotho	2.6%
• Other	2.8%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	LIM331

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[3]

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-one wards, while the remaining thirty-one 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 fifty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[4][5]

South African general election, 2014

Results of the National Assembly election of 2014 for Greater Giyani Local Municipality:[6]

• ANC 89.2%
• EFF 5.3%
• DA 3.2%
• ACDP 0.5%
• COPE 0.4%
• AIC 0.4%
• APC 0.3%
• UDM 0.1%
• AGANG SA 0.1%
• PAC 0.1%
• FF+ 0.1%
• IFP 0.1%
• UCDP 0.0%
• AZAPO 0.0%
• WASP 0.0%
• NFP 0.0%
• UBUNTU 0.0%
• PA 0.0%
• BRA 0.0%
• KISS 0.0%
• PAM 0.0%
• ICOSA 0.0%
• FN 0.0%
• MF 0.0%
• UNICO 0.0%
• FINLA 0.0%
• PAL 0.0%
• KGM 0.0%
• Al Jama-ah 0.0%

References

External links

• Official homepage

На других языках

[de] Greater Giyani

[ru] Большой Гияни (местный муниципалитет)