Talk:Nquthu Local Municipality

Politics section update
- Update: withdrawing the request since it's been overtaken by subsequent edits. - htonl (talk) 21:56, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm not going to make this edit myself, because of my fairly obvious conflict of interest. But I propose the following update to the text of the "Politics" section.

"The municipal council consists of thirty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining sixteen 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 no party obtained a majority; the following table shows the results of that election.

Insert the current results table here

The Inkatha Freedom Party was expected to govern the municipality with the support of the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters. However, because of litigation, procedural disputes and disruption of council meetings, the council repeatedly failed to elect a speaker or mayor.

In October 2016 the provincial government intervened in the municipality to place it under the control of an appointed administrator. In February 2017 the municipal council was dissolved, and the Electoral Commission scheduled fresh elections for 24 May 2017."