Midvaal Local Municipality

Midvaal Local Municipality is an administrative area within the Sedibeng District Municipality of Gauteng in South Africa. The municipality's name references its geographical location halfway between Johannesburg and East Rand and the Vaal and Vereeniging areas.[4]

Midvaal
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Gauteng
Coordinates: 26°35′S 28°05′E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
District	Sedibeng
Seat	Meyerton
Wards	15
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Bongani Baloyi (DA)
Area
• Total	1,722 km^2 (665 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	95,301
• Density	55/km^2 (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	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	GT422

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 recognisable 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

Demographics

Group	2001 Census	%	2011 Census	%	Change	% Change
Black African	38,168	59.05%	55,643	58.39%	17,475	0.66%
White	25,295	39.13%	36,869	38.69%	11,574	0.44%
Coloured	888	1.37%	1,558	1.63%	670	0.26%
Indian or Asian	291	0.45%	750	0.79%	459	0.34%
Other	No Data	–	480	0.50%	n/a	n/a
Total population	64,642	100.00%	95,301	100.00%	30,659	47.4%

Main places

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

Place	Code	Area (km^2)	Population	Most spoken language
Evaton	70502	1.39	3,406	Sotho
Meyerton	70503	114.28	24,215	Afrikaans
Randvaal	70505	74.14	7,933	English
Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve	70506	113.79	0	-
Vaal Marina	70507	2.60	9	Sotho
Walkerville	70509	151.54	9,662	English
Remainder of the municipality	70504	1,218.44	12,723	Sotho

References

1. "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
3. "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
4. Jako Olivier. "South African Languages - Place names". Salanguages.com. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
5. "Government". Midvaal. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
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. "Municipal Data and Intelligence". Municipal IQ. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
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

External links

• Official website