Dipaleseng Local 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.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea PopulationMost spoken language
Balfour10.022,070Afrikaans
Ekanini0.34293English
Greylingstad0.141,508Zulu
Nthwane0.622,888Zulu
Siyathemba3.9117,747Zulu
Remainder of the municipality2,600.2514,131Zulu

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 won a majority of nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.