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Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality

Dr JS Moroka Municipality (; ; ) is a local municipality within the Nkangala District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The seat is Siyabuswa. It is named after James Moroka, 8th President-General of the African National Congress.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one 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 forty-three seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.

In a by-election held on 8 January 2019, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below:

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