The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4] 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.

[5] On February 2025 ,ActionSA laid a charge of corruption to SIU after Absa bank notices a large amount withdrawal from the municipal account worth more than R30 million rands.

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