# Greater Giyani Local Municipality

Greater Giyani Municipality (Tsonga: Masipala wa Greater Giyani) is a local municipality within the Mopani District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Giyani.

## Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
| Place | Code | Area (km$^2$) | Population | Most spoken language |
| Giyani Part 2 | 90111 | 21.53 | 32,673 | Tsonga |
| Giyani Part 3 | 90112 | 0.24 | 415 | Tsonga |
| Hlaneki | 90102 | 365.04 | 23,402 | Tsonga |
| Mabunda | 90103 | 1.63 | 3,861 | Tsonga |
| Makhuva | 90104 | 131.90 | 3,615 | Tsonga |
| Modjadji | 90105 | 4.03 | 4,373 | Tsonga |
| Msengi | 90106 | 87.74 | 8,279 | Tsonga |
| Ndengeza | 90107 | 82.98 | 10,751 | Tsonga |
| Nkuri | 90108 | 5.35 | 7,052 | Tsonga |
| Nkomo | 90109 | 3.92 | 4,029 | Tsonga |
| Shiviti | 90110 | 815.97 | 39,610 | Tsonga |
| Remainder of the municipality (Giyani Part 1) | 90101 | 1,444.47 | 99,343 | Tsonga |

## Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one councillors 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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty-seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
| Party | Party | Ward | Ward | Ward | List | List | List | Total seats |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Total seats |
| | African National Congress | 44,400 | 72.71 | 29 | 46,550 | 76.72 | 18 | 47 |
| | Economic Freedom Fighters | 4,349 | 7.12 | 0 | 4,789 | 7.89 | 5 | 5 |
| | Independent candidates | 4,713 | 7.72 | 2 | | | | 2 |
| | African People's Convention | 2,064 | 3.38 | 0 | 1,688 | 2.78 | 2 | 2 |
| | Democratic Alliance | 1,020 | 1.67 | 0 | 1,142 | 1.88 | 1 | 1 |
| | Forum for Service Delivery | 730 | 1.20 | 0 | 1,303 | 2.15 | 1 | 1 |
| | Mopani Independent Movement | 1,206 | 1.98 | 0 | 793 | 1.31 | 1 | 1 |
| | Patriotic Alliance | 637 | 1.04 | 0 | 624 | 1.03 | 1 | 1 |
| | Ximoko Party | 212 | 0.35 | 0 | 1,005 | 1.66 | 1 | 1 |
| | National Independent Party | 408 | 0.67 | 0 | 482 | 0.79 | 1 | 1 |
| | 13 other parties | 1,324 | 2.17 | 0 | 2,299 | 3.79 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 61,063 | 100.00 | 31 | 60,675 | 100.00 | 31 | 62 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 61,063 | 98.23 | | 60,675 | 97.71 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 1,098 | 1.77 | | 1,425 | 2.29 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 62,161 | 100.00 | | 62,100 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 127,782 | 48.65 | | 127,782 | 48.60 | | |

## South African general election, 2014

Results of the National Assembly election of 2014 for Greater Giyani Local Municipality:
* ANC 89.2%
* EFF 5.3%
* DA 3.2%
* ACDP 0.5%
* COPE 0.4%
* AIC 0.4%
* APC 0.3%
* UDM 0.1%
* AGANG SA 0.1%
* PAC 0.1%
* FF+ 0.1%
* IFP 0.1%
* UCDP 0.0%
* AZAPO 0.0%
* WASP 0.0%
* NFP 0.0%
* UBUNTU 0.0%
* PA 0.0%
* BRA 0.0%
* KISS 0.0%
* PAM 0.0%
* ICOSA 0.0%
* FN 0.0%
* MF 0.0%
* UNICO 0.0%
* FINLA 0.0%
* PAL 0.0%
* KGM 0.0%
* Al Jama-ah 0.0%