Thabazimbi Municipality (; ; ) is a local municipality within the Waterberg District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Thabazimbi.
Thabazimbi is a Sotho–Nguni name meaning "iron ore mountain." The early Bantu communities (Sotho, Venda, Kalanga, Nguni and Nyasa) worked on this mountain to mine iron.South African Languages - Place names
Main places The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language Amandelbult 9140147.732,076Tswana Ipeleng 914020.02940Tswana Middeldrift 914031.152,138Afrikaans Mmebane 914040.01283Northern Sotho Northam 9140547.566,180Tswana Regorogile 914061.117,609Tswana Rooiberg Tin Mine 914074.32250Afrikaans Rooikrans 914082.69153Tswana Smersha Block 914091.3312,875Xhosa Swartklip 9141014.182,912Afrikaans Swartkop 914110.56103Afrikaans Thabazimbi 9141310.764,423Afrikaans Remainder of the municipality 914129,723.0623,968Tswana
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 1 November 2021, the African National Congress (ANC) won a plurality of 11 seats.
The following table shows the results of the election.
The municipality was dissolved due to dysfunctionality, and a full set of elections, ward and PR, were held to elect a new council in December 2024. The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links Official homepage