Vhembe District Municipality

The council also has good governance and participation that ensures that there is development and capacitation of communities in order to effect meaning participation. The larger community is also consulted when it comes to council programmes and policies.

Introduction

Vhembe is situated in the Northern part of Limpopo Province, sharing borders with Zimbabwe in the north, Mozambique through Kruger National Park in the east and Botswana in the north west.

Vhembe District Municipality with its head quarters in Thohoyandou was established in 2000 through the process of transformation of Local Government. It was established in terms of Municipal Structures Act 117 of 1998 as a demarcated sphere of governance.

Fact file

Province:

Limpopo

Population:

1.6 million

Joined COE programme:

2013

# Councillors:

24 (9 female; 15 male)

Sunrise Campaign:

Yes

Latest Summit:

2015

Latest Gender Score:

81%

Stories of change

Vhembe municipality
It is a good practice because cases of children and women abuse are so high and so rife in our District. More than 50 % case which are reported in our police stations around the District are that of women and children abuse. Many women and children were killed due to gender based violence in our various communities. Some of perpetrators are being arrested but released due to the lack of sufficient evidence. Our people are afraid to go and testify because they donâ € ™t want to be victimised by these perpetrators.So this type of workshops and awareness campaigns that we are doing to contentious people on how to fight gender based violence are very helpful. People can now report abuse cases without any fear and are also starting to avail themselves in court to testify. Some people now knows their rights as enshrined in our constitution.
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Vhembe District Municipality