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Thembisile

32 wards on the 2021 boundaries. Official results of the 2021 Local Government Elections below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources. The latest national and provincial result here is the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.

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  • Thembisile, Nkangala
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 35,7%–37,8%
  • 37,8%–39,5%
  • 39,5%–41,0%
  • 41,0%–43,0%
  • 43,0%–52,3%

Votes cast ÷ registered voters, per ward. Classes split the wards shown into equal groups.

MDB 2021 boundaries · select an area to open it

2024 National and Provincial Elections

29 May 2024 · National ballot · Counted in Thembisile · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
89 419
Turnout
56,9%
Registered
161 051
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS59,3%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS17,4%
  3. UMKHONTO WESIZWE9,3%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE8,7%
  5. ACTIONSA0,8%
  6. All others4,6%

National and provincial elections are a different election from local ones; each is shown with its own year. Full 2024 results

Share of valid votes

Proportional representation (PR) ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS62,7%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS19,5%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE5,9%
  4. AFRICAN INDEPENDENT PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION4,1%
  5. SINDAWONYE PROGRESSIVE PARTY1,7%
  6. Others (10)6,2%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 2552,3%
  2. Ward 3149,3%
  3. Ward 2448,7%
  4. Ward 1247,4%
  5. Ward 1643,9%
  6. Ward 243,7%
  7. Ward 743,0%
  8. Ward 2142,5%
  9. Ward 842,0%
  10. Ward 142,0%

All 32 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 37 469 (62,7% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
151 479
Votes cast
61 389
Turnout
40,5%
Spoilt ballots
1 611
How many votes did each contestant receive?15 contestants · 59 778 valid votes · totals of 143 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37 46962,7%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11 63919,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3 5095,9%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION2 4294,1%
SINDAWONYE PROGRESSIVE PARTY1 0241,7%
INGUBO YESKHETHU PARTY9901,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS8161,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT4090,7%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY2960,5%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION2940,5%
Others (5 contestants together)9031,5%
Show all 15 contestants
All 15 contestants15 contestants · 59 778 valid votes · totals of 143 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37 46962,7%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11 63919,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3 5095,9%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION2 4294,1%
SINDAWONYE PROGRESSIVE PARTY1 0241,7%
INGUBO YESKHETHU PARTY9901,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS8161,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT4090,7%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY2960,5%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION2940,5%
AFRICAN VOICE PROGRESSIVE PARTY2170,4%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS2150,4%
INTERNATIONAL REVELATION CONGRESS1830,3%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT1660,3%
BOLSHEVIKS PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA1220,2%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Mpumalanga (CSV) · retrieved

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Source
IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Mpumalanga (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Attribution
Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2021 Local Government Elections.

Totals are the sum of the IEC’s published voting-district results, checked against the IEC’s own totals when the data was loaded. Party names are shown exactly as the IEC publishes them.

Council

Thembisile Local Municipality Council: seats won in the 2021 Local Government Elections, as the IEC calculated them

Seats by party, 2021IEC seat calculation printed 22 November 2021
PartyWardPRSeats
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS301040
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS01212
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE044
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION033
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT011
INGUBO YESKHETHU PARTY011
SINDAWONYE PROGRESSIVE PARTY011
Independent ward councillors2–2
Total323264

2021 seat calculation

Seats
64
Quota
1 866
Valid votes counted
115 637

Proportional representation: each party’s total follows its share of the PR and ward votes; its ward winners count first and PR list members fill the rest.

Mayor, speaker and other office-bearers are not on the record yet

Thembisile’s office-bearers and PR councillors are not in the record yet. They appear once an authoritative source for them is captured and approved; none are inferred from party lists.

“Ward seats today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors and, for the 2 wards that list leaves out after a by-election, the candidate that by-election elected (the list omits by-election winners). Neither source dates when a councillor left office.

Sources: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 2 official files · retrieved

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IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Mpumalanga (20 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Attribution
Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.
Source
IEC — List of current ward councillors, Mpumalanga (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Ward councillors: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), www.elections.org.za.

Public money

Budgets, audited spending and audit opinions as National Treasury publishes them for the municipality; tenders it publishes under its own name

Budgets, spending and audits
Total revenue, audited actual—no audited year published
Irregular expenditure, reportedR 5,7 million2023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

No organ of state on the eTender portal is linked to this municipality by an identical name; its notices, if any, are listed under the name the portal prints.

Wards of Thembisile

With each ward’s councillor as the IEC lists today, the party that won it in 2021, and its turnout

32 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1SIMON CHANI PULENG SESWIKEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,0%
Ward 2LUCKY MATLHATSI LUKHELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,7%
Ward 3STEVEN CITHA MAHLANGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,3%
Ward 4NAMTUNGWA ELIZABETH RADEBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,1%
Ward 5VUSI MICHAEL NTULIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,0%
Ward 6MABLE ELSIE MABANGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,1%
Ward 7SIMON BANGISWANI SINDANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,0%
Ward 8BONGANI NTOKOZO DLAMINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,0%
Ward 9JOSEPH ELIAS MTHIMUNYEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,8%
Ward 10KHANYI LEAH MASANABOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,2%
Ward 11MMELISIZWE TERANCE NTULIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,1%
Ward 12MOSES MMOISETSI SEPOGWANAINDEPENDENTIndependents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable47,4%
Ward 13RICHARD BONGANI JIYANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,9%
Ward 14SIMON VUSI MASOMBUKAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,7%
Ward 15SIMON SIPHO MNGUNIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,7%
Ward 16TENBOY BUTTITJIE DUBEINDEPENDENTIndependents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable43,9%
Ward 17FIKILE VIOLET MGAYIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,0%
Ward 18SIFISO INNOCENT MABENAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 11 June 2025AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,2%
Ward 19LUCKY XOLANI MTSWENIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,7%
Ward 20NOMVULA SISTER MNGUNIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,2%
Ward 21CLASS MENZELWA JIYANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,5%
Ward 22SONTO ROSE NHLAPHOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,4%
Ward 23BONGANI VICTOR MSIBIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,5%
Ward 24BERNARD VUSI MTSHAISEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,7%
Ward 25POPPIE MAHLANGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,3%
Ward 26MASOTJA PETRUS NDULIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,8%
Ward 27BAWINILE SIMON MABHENAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,9%
Ward 28MKHULULI JACOB SITHOLEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,3%
Ward 29ROSE MARTHA KGOMOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,1%
Ward 30GODFREY NKOSINATHI MAHLANGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,4%
Ward 31NKOSINATHI DINGAAN MAHLANGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 11 June 2025AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,3%
Ward 32THABILE PRUNELLA NKOSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS35,7%

“Won in 2021”: the IEC’s ward-ballot results of the 2021 Local Government Elections, the latest general local election with verified results (sources on each ward’s page); by-elections since then are on each ward’s page. “Councillor today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors, read 9 October 2026, or, for a ward it leaves out, the latest by-election result.

Municipality record and boundaries: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) · MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export · retrieved

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MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
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Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.