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Thaba Chweu

14 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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  • Thaba Chweu, Ehlanzeni
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 25,0%–35,4%
  • 35,4%–41,4%
  • 41,4%–42,6%
  • 42,6%–52,4%
  • 52,4%–55,2%

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 Thaba Chweu · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
27 507
Turnout
52,2%
Registered
53 599
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS56,3%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE19,8%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,6%
  4. UMKHONTO WESIZWE4,9%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS2,3%
  6. All others5,1%

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 CONGRESS58,6%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE21,8%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,9%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3,7%
  5. AFRICAN UNIFIED MOVEMENT1,3%
  6. Others (6)2,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 455,2%
  2. Ward 854,6%
  3. Ward 1252,4%
  4. Ward 950,2%
  5. Ward 744,3%
  6. Ward 1342,6%
  7. Ward 242,1%
  8. Ward 541,7%
  9. Ward 641,4%
  10. Ward 1441,2%

All 14 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 12 699 (58,6% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
50 959
Votes cast
22 025
Turnout
43,2%
Spoilt ballots
357
How many votes did each contestant receive?11 contestants · 21 668 valid votes · totals of 48 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS12 69958,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4 73021,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2 57011,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS7933,7%
AFRICAN UNIFIED MOVEMENT2821,3%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2701,2%
POWER OF AFRICANS UNITY950,4%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION840,4%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA660,3%
BETTER RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION410,2%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT380,2%

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

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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

Thaba Chweu 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 CONGRESS12416
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE246
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS033
AFRICAN UNIFIED MOVEMENT011
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS011
Total141327

2021 seat calculation

Seats
27
Quota
1 593
Valid votes counted
42 986

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

Thaba Chweu’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 1 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 73 million2023/24
Audit opinionOutstanding2023/24 · 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 Thaba Chweu

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

14 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1MAMSEY DIKELEDI SIBANYONIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,9%
Ward 2GEORGE MANDLA SANGXUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,1%
Ward 3SAM TSHEPO MOKWENAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS35,4%
Ward 4PETRUS TEBOGO MKHONDOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS55,2%
Ward 5ANNAH RANKWEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,7%
Ward 6TREVA MAHLATSI SELEPEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 18 June 2025AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,4%
Ward 7HERNS TROWERAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,3%
Ward 8CORNELIAS MPHONYANA MOHLALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,6%
Ward 9GREGORY MAHLOGONOLO MASHILEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,2%
Ward 10QUINTAN PAUL BENJAMIN LAWRENCEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,9%
Ward 11MARTHA NOMASONTO MASIMOLAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS25,0%
Ward 12SPIRIDON COUVARASDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE52,4%
Ward 13DELI THIMOTY MAPHANGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,6%
Ward 14MARIUS OPPERMANDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE41,2%

“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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Attribution
Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.