The municipal council consists of thirty-eight members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in nineteen
wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 twenty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.
Political assassinations The municipality was described as "the epicentre of political assassinations" after a number of assassinations. In 2022, Sbonelo Mthembu accused former mayor Vusi Motha of having assassinated
African National Congress regional secretary Gert Sibande. Mthembu himself was later assassinated. Motha stated that he had intended to sue Mthembu for defamation. ==References==