The municipal council consists of fifty-nine members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in thirty
wards, while the remaining twenty-nine 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) lost its majority, obtaining a plurality of twenty-nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election. == Corruption ==