Midvaal Local Municipality

Midvaal
Local municipality

Seal
Location in Gauteng
Location in Gauteng
Coordinates: 26°35′S 28°05′E / 26.583°S 28.083°E / -26.583; 28.083Coordinates: 26°35′S 28°05′E / 26.583°S 28.083°E / -26.583; 28.083
Country South Africa
Province Gauteng
District Sedibeng
Seat Meyerton
Wards 15
Government[1]
 • Type Municipal council
 • Mayor Bongani Baloyi (DA)
Area
 • Total 1,722 km2 (665 sq mi)
Population (2011)[2]
 • Total 95,301
 • Density 55/km2 (140/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[2]
 • Black African 58.4%
 • Coloured 1.6%
 • Indian/Asian 0.8%
 • White 38.7%
First languages (2011)[3]
 • Afrikaans 30.9%
 • Sotho 27.9%
 • English 14.0%
 • Zulu 11.8%
 • Other 15.4%
Time zone SAST (UTC+2)
Municipal code GT422

Midvaal Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Sedibeng District of Gauteng in South Africa. The name due to its geographical location: Midvaal lies halfway between Johannesburg/East Rand and the Vaal/Vereeniging area.[4]

Midvaal Local Municipality [5] led by Executive Mayor Cllr. Bongani Baloyi has been coined the fastest growing municipality in Gauteng due to its rapid economic growth. Midvaal has undergone a radical change from quaint country area to booming tourist, recreational and industrial centre in Southern Gauteng. Midvaal has grown from 60 000 residents in 2001 to 100 000 today. A report by Gauteng’s Provincial Government ranked Midvaal as the province's top municipality in terms of quality of life.[6] In December 2010 Midvaal was ranked 23rd out of 231 municipalities.[7] This shows that Midvaal is within the top 10% of high scoring local municipalities in South Africa.
Midvaal’s name has become more prominent with the establishment of the Oprah Winfrey School located in the area. In addition to this one of golf's most successful and recognizable stars Greg Norman coined “the Great White Shark” invested huge amounts of money into the Eye of Africa Golfing Estate development for which he designed the golf course. The municipality’s major achievement has been attracting Sedibeng Breweries, South Africa’s distributors of Heineken into the area. The brewery has set up its national offices along Midvaal R59 freeway/ corridor and has brought with it new opportunities for job creation and small businesses.

Politics

The municipal council consists of twenty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fourteen 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 Democratic Alliance (DA) won a majority of seventeen seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[8][9]

Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
Democratic Alliance 21,346 21,426 42,772 59.7 11 6 17
African National Congress 11,487 11,497 22,984 32.1 4 5 9
Economic Freedom Fighters 1,731 1,706 3,437 4.8 0 2 2
Freedom Front Plus 1,088 1,053 2,141 3.0 0 1 1
Congress of the People 159 150 309 0.4 0 0 0
Total 35,811 35,832 71,643 100.0 15 14 29
Spoilt votes 286 278 564

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[10]

Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language
Alberton 705012.49358Afrikaans
Evaton 705021.393,406Sotho
Meyerton 70503114.2824,215Afrikaans
Randvaal 7050574.147,933English
Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve 70506113.790 -
Vaal Marina 705072.609Sotho
Vereeniging 7050843.606,347Afrikaans
Walkerville 70509151.549,662English
Remainder of the municipality 705041,218.4412,723Sotho

References

  1. ↑ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. ↑ South African Languages - Place names
  5. ↑ http://www.midvaal.gov.za/
  6. ↑ http://www.polity.org.za/article/da-joint-statement-by-janet-semple-tim-nast-and-marti-wenger-da-gauteng-leader-da-mayor-of-midvaal-and-shadow-minister-of-cooperative-governance-and-traditional-affairs-on-the-midvaal-municipality-27052010-2010-05-27
  7. ↑ http://www.municipaliq.co.za/
  8. ↑ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Midvaal" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Seat Calculation Detail: Midvaal" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  10. ↑ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
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